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...have interests extending beyond formal education which you have done nothing to satisfy, then be assured: breadth does not equal academic abandon. If, on the other hand, the straightaway path to a graduate or professional degree is the only thing that interests you, then know this: some detours have prettier scenery...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Elliptical Man | 2/18/1963 | See Source »

Kennedy for President in '64. Of course I mean Teddy. With more youth and looks than Jack-and a prettier wife than Jackie-and just as much money-what more could you want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 23, 1962 | 11/23/1962 | See Source »

...earnings of the roads last year totaled $77 million, well ahead of the earnings of any other transportation corporation. President Saunders estimates that by eliminating duplicate tracks and terminals between the Wabash and Nickel Plate, he will save at least $25 million a year and make the profit picture prettier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Apple Pie | 12/12/1960 | See Source »

...mordant power is in evidence again and again, but Toys combines it with a broadened sense of humanity. Always sharp at characterization, the author of The Little Foxes has become more probing and wide-ranging about character. She has passed from human greed to something at times no prettier but much more universalizing: human need, the ego's fierce need to be needed and be loved, and hence its ugly need, when foiled, to hurt or betray or destroy. In Toys it is not vixen teeth that bite, but human lips denied a kiss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays on Broadway, Mar. 7, 1960 | 3/7/1960 | See Source »

...vaudeville acts. One of the best had a man in an upper berth peering at a girl in a lower as she got ready for bed. They have lots of creative imagination over there. Danish girls are a cross between the English and French, but they're prettier than either." ¶England-"The girls just aren't very sexy. The shows are all in private clubs, and they're uninhibited. But the girls have little expression, and they don't move too well." ¶France-"A Parisian girl can be sexy just holding a glass. Strippers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURLESQUE: Baedeker | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

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