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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FIFTY YEARS IN CHINA (346 pp.)-John Leighton Stuart-Random House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mission to Tragedy | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

HOCKSHOP, by William R. Simpson and Florence K. Simpson with Charles Samuels (311 pp.; Random House; $3.75), is the entertaining tale of that commercial paradox, a respectable pawnshop. The original Simpson's of New York City's Park Row was established in 1822. For more than a century after that, five generations of Simpsons made good money by lending it against even better security. William, the fifth of the Simpsons, dealt with clients ranging from clever thieves to obsessive society belles, from broken-down prizefighters to muscular gigolos. Among their collateral were 18th century manuscripts, a Stradivarius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Characters & Carats | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

Briggs will select the women at random from the audience and the audience and the audience will vote on their conducting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Band to Play Tonight In Dartmouth Concert | 10/22/1954 | See Source »

Most of the committee's 200 questionnaires, sent to a random sampling of the Class of '58, have been returned, and the committee will soon begin to determine the problems of transition and change in the freshman year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Council Group to Analyze Problems in Yard | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

...TIME FOR SERGEANTS, by Mac Hymen (214 pp.; Random House; $2.95), is the comic saga of how the U.S. Air Force grabs a Georgia cracker and learns it has bit off more than it can chew. Will Stockdale is not mean, but too dark an eight ball for even a general to stand behind. He is drafted after a pitched battle on Tobacco Road and in the barracks blows doleful music on his mouth harp to the tune Mother Ain't Dead, She's Only Sleeping. Will's perceptive sergeant appoints him permanent latrine orderly. On inspection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Oct. 4, 1954 | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

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