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...that ventured out were overturned. A procession of several thousand anti-Leopoldists marched towards Leopold's palace at Laeken yelling "Abdication!" and "A has la calotte [down with the cassocks]." Ex-Premier Spaak was at the head of the line. A woman ran up to him, stroked his plump face and said, "Aren't you tired? What are you going to do now? Camp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Temporary Retreat | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

Every year the life of the U.S. fish gets more hazardous, and-presumably-U.S. thoughts grow cleaner. In 1949, an estimated 25 million citizens tempted him with hook-studded live frogs, gaily feathered flies, and plump, harmless-looking nightcrawlers. The number of U.S. anglers, says Editor Bruce R. Tuttle in his introduction to The Standard Book of Fishing, is even larger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How to Catch a Fish | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

Talebearers. The arrest of Family Man Slack was quickly followed by that of another husband & father, a 28-year-old machinist from New York's East Side named David Greenglass. Plump, wavy-haired Machinist Greenglass made no bones about the fact that he had been considering either running away or committing suicide ever since he had read the chill news of Gold's arrest. The FBI discussed his case even more tersely than that of Slack-he had joined the Young Communist League in 1938, had been sent to the Los Alamos atomic project as a machinist while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: The Smaller Ones | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

Very Sassy. The man responsible for the murky brown medicine is Louisiana's plump State Senator Dudley J. LeBlanc, 56, who had to rustle up a new business after he made the mistake of running for governor in 1932 against a Huey Long candidate. Recovering from a bout of rheumatism when his doctors gave him vitamin B-complex, LeBlanc saw that there was money as well as health in vitamins. He boned up on the subject by reading at home, decided that vitamins would be better if mixed with minerals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dietary Supplement | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

...call time out while they scrabbled in their dictionaries for more stickers. Imprimatur, encomium, umbrage, charlatan and eident eliminated all but three. In Round 29, Jim Bernhard, 12, of Houston, Texas, who had plowed successfully through such words as effluviography, went down on haruspex (he ended it specs). Only plump, wavy-haired Diana Reynard, 12, of East Cleveland, Ohio, and pale, lanky Colquitt Dean, 14, of College Park, Ga., were left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Gnarled with a K | 6/5/1950 | See Source »

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