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Buoyant Billions is a rambling charade about a young world-betterer who ends up bettering only himself by marrying a rich man's daughter. The daughter, who lives in a jungle and enchants alligators and snakes by playing a saxophone, could have been a great Shaw character had she...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Last Plays by G.B.S. | 5/14/1951 | See Source »

Many find the rambling campus the best, and certainly cheapest, place to spend a day or evening. Lake Waban spreads out along the edge of the grounds, and according to one campus corp, "we don't care what goes on there as long as you're quiet about it." No...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Highway Haunts, Lakeside Luxuries Supply Entertainment for Travellers | 5/12/1951 | See Source »

Nor are Americans able to warm completely to his rambling style of speech and thought (he sounds at times like Eleanor Roosevelt, if she had read more philosophy). He acts as a statesman, politician and diplomat, but he often speaks as a moralist. Americans, who are far more preoccupied with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IDEAS: Pandit's Mind | 5/7/1951 | See Source »

Tailored News. The big changeover was not entirely painless. Wire-service editors had to abandon such favorite interruptions as flashes, bulletins and new leads, except for major news breaks. They had to cut down long, rambling stories from New York and Washington to a size convenient for the cramped space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Small-Town Revolution | 5/7/1951 | See Source »

Hobby Lobby. The Greenewalts live in a 15-room rambling stone hilltop house 7½ miles outside Wilmington with their children, Nancy, 22, David, 20, Crawford Jr., 13. Greenewalt, who used to play clarinet, cello and the piano, now likes to tootle on the basset horn. His restless mind ranges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: The Wizards of Wilmington | 4/16/1951 | See Source »

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