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Ingenious Blend. But can Sam be proved to be Stiller? That is the question-and it is one that has always intrigued the theologians and philosophers who have delved into the problem of personal identity. "Good Swiss commonsense" knows that "Sam White" is the fiction of a desperate man who is determined to escape not only from his past but from the self by which he is known to others. But the Stiller beneath the Sam is equally sure that there is much more in him than others can perceive: by running away to the New World and becoming "another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Who's Who | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

When the young man with the excellent memory had finished, the schoolgirl slipped him two pfennigs, and with her morning's lesson safely in mind, skipped happily off to school. Thereupon, Horst Eberhard Huett, 22, continued on his way in search of another customer, another question-and more pfennigs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Pomes Penyeach | 8/10/1953 | See Source »

...checker's question-and the stack of fan letters that came later -brought TIME Correspondent Frank McNaughton some surprising news. To millions of televiewers in 26 U.S. cities he had become something of a star. To TIME editors he was a man doing before cameras just what he had been doing with a typewriter for 24 years: a bang-up reporting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Apr. 2, 1951 | 4/2/1951 | See Source »

Thurmond has never campaigned on a "white supremacy" platform. He has consistently urged constitutional government of the U.S., with the 48 components maintaining their sovereign rights. Of course, it makes a more sensational article . . . when you drag in the Negro question-and probably sells more copies in your Northern stronghold where they can continue their criticism of the Southerners for their oppression of the poor blacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 1, 1948 | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...most Southern politicos were in no such sweetly reasonable, give-&-take mood. Louisiana's Governor Sam Jones said calmly: "We've always handled that question-and always will." Texas' Representative Nat Patton remarked evenly: "Texas will find some way to work out a Democratic primary for white folks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Bomb | 4/17/1944 | See Source »

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