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...Including Reader Bunker, 18. Composer Dallapiccola adapted his libretto from two works: The Torture of Hope, and some of the more sinister legends of 14th Century German prankster Till Eulenspiegel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 19, 1950 | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

...child, and she expands with pride when Portius makes a fine speech. Portius is a stout character himself. He survives the cholera, though his only medicine is red pepper and asafetida pills, because he is too "preserved in alcohol to die." When he becomes a judge, agnostic and prankster that he is, he secretly replaces the court Bible with Arabian Nights, by which everyone swears as devoutly as before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Taming of Ohio | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

...last Aztec ruler, Eulalia Guzman packed up for another trip to Ixcateopan. The red-faced Bank of Mexico kept its own counsel. One question remained unsolved: Was the hoax the work of a 20th Century man, or had it been perpetrated by some long-forgotten 16th Century prankster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Whose Bones? | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...plywood with two radio tubes and a quart oilcan mounted on pieces of plastic. Painted on the wood were a hammer & sickle and the letters, U.S.S.R. Another "flaming saucer" that spun down from overhead gave Shreveport, La. a good scare, turned out to be a joke by a local prankster who wanted to frighten his boss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Things That Go Whiz | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

While things were relatively quiet, someone from Thayer took a successful potshot with a snowball at one of the Yard cops. The startled officer dashed after the prankster and both disappeared into Thayer's Middle entry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nocturnal Brawl In Snow Shatters Stillness of Yard | 1/25/1949 | See Source »

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