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...blond Dick Thomson looked ahead and said, "I'm carsick-stop the car." The young man at the wheel, a slim, brown-haired fellow named Jim Meuler, headed off the road and stopped. At that moment Thomson reached behind the seat, picked up a length of iron pipe, and hit his companion a crashing blow on the back of the skull. Meuler jerked the door open and managed to lurch out, dazed, bleeding and incredulous. Thomson was his closest friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Cliff Hanger | 9/28/1953 | See Source »

...Population: 5,091,000, less than half that of Pennsylvania; area: 352,141 square miles, about the size of Texas and Oklahoma combined. † Samples: a 15? can of U.S. pipe tobacco, $2.10; a medium-size refrigerator, $540; a Ford sedan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: The Busy Bs | 9/21/1953 | See Source »

Poet Alfred de Musset was next on the list. She sat on a cushion at his feet, puffing a long pipe of Bosnian cherrywood, while he murmured that "his genius was a poor, frail thing." It was. George left Alfred half dead in a Venetian hotel and took up with his Italian doctor. "Is it in you, my Pietro," Sand wrote to her medico, "in you at long last that I shall see my dream fulfilled?" It was not in Pietro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Emancipated Woman | 9/14/1953 | See Source »

Ever since Galileo stuck a couple of lenses in a length of pipe and got a glimpse of the solar system, scientists and storytellers have worked overtime peopling the outer universe with living creatures. It is high time, says Dr. Hubertus Strughold of the U.S. Air Force School of Aviation Medicine, "to raise the question of life on other planets to the biological plane where it belongs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Life on Mars | 8/24/1953 | See Source »

Provocation. In Hartford, Conn., fined $50 and costs for hitting John H. Williams with an iron pipe, Chef Charles Cokinos of the Starlite Restaurant explained: "He only ordered a cup of coffee. He wasn't spending enough money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 17, 1953 | 8/17/1953 | See Source »

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