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Born in a dugout home on a Texas tenant farm, Robert Lee (Bob) Thornton chopped brush, plowed with mules, slept in piles of cotton hulls, saved his money, went to Dallas, got a job as a bookkeeper with a firm that folded, got into the textbook business and went broke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CITIES: The Driver | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

The Jenner and Velde investigations have stirred so much response from the educational world recently that last week's report of the American Association of Universities tends to get lost in the piles of similar documents. It shouldn't. coming from the top official of each of the thirty-nine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Investigations and the AAU: I | 4/8/1953 | See Source »

Deacon Farrar finds the right tune for a paper not in his office (he has none) or his Laguna Beach, Calif, home but in a hotel room in the city where he is working. There, for a fee of about $100 a day and up, he cuts up heads from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Making Papers Sing | 4/6/1953 | See Source »

Reynolds' stubby hands turn huge trees into strange antler-like fans, fill his canvas with marsh reeds as gaunt and glittering spikes, and dandelions as wildly dancing figures-all in deep green, creamy white, swirls of rich brown, red and yellow. Sometimes he takes the other tack, drains his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Solid Scot | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

Even the never-to-be trusted Lampy down on the corner of Bow St. was forced to slip a slightly exaggerated truth and tribute to the CRIMSON into the piles of erroneous copy he published in one of last year's issues.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIME Candies Get Chance To Heed Lampy's Wise Words | 2/7/1953 | See Source »

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