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...feel just like Brer Rabbit when he reared back in the brier patch. I'm just where I want to be," she explains. "I don't know a woman in the U.S. I'd want to change places with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Granny & the Voodoo | 7/5/1954 | See Source »

...Brunswick, where he was meditating while fishing, Naturalist Thornton (Old Mother West Wind stories) Burgess, 80, whose bedtime stories are in sum a 44-year chase of Peter Rabbit, who always manages to evade Reddy Fox by a hare's breadth, confided that Peter will never be caught unless it's over Burgess' dead body. "There will never be a tragedy in the Burgess bedtime stories," said he feelingly, with a deep sense of his mission. "Tragedy comes into a child's life soon enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 21, 1954 | 6/21/1954 | See Source »

This marks the second time that a Lampoon writer has won the prize since it was initiated in 1948. In that year it was awarded to Clement B. Wood '47 for a story entitled "The Very Young Rabbit." The Advocate has won the prize once...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Updike Captures Dana Reed Prize For Best Writing | 5/11/1954 | See Source »

During the two-year search, Lefty and The Rabbit were kept at public expense in a $40-weekly suite in Brooklyn's topflight St. George Hotel. Why weren't they held in jail or sent to prison for stealing the revolvers? Because New York authorities do not trust their ability to keep order in their own penal institutions. They were afraid that Lefty and The Rabbit would be killed by a friend or hireling of Mazziotta's. Many times known murderers have gone free because the witnesses against them were murdered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Law Enforcement in Brooklyn | 5/10/1954 | See Source »

After two years, the two stevedores and their families were fed up. Meager public grants barely fed their wives and children (Lefty, 37, has four and The Rabbit, 39, has five). Lefty lost 22 Ibs. from worry and confinement. The two witnesses petitioned Judge Samuel Leibowitz to let them go home. Last week Leibowitz agreed-on remarkable conditions that throw more light on law enforcement in Brooklyn. Lefty and The Rabbit must never go near the waterfront, Judge Leibowitz ruled, and furthermore, they must live with police guards, who are to follow .them, even inside their homes, from living room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Law Enforcement in Brooklyn | 5/10/1954 | See Source »

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