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Only an exquisite talent explains a ticket on Quincy street. Of a line of forty cars, many of them sleek, foreign beauties, I acquired the only ticket. An adjacent vehicle had been parked so long the squirrels were storing acorns in its carburetor. Another rested with its front bumper peeling...

Author: By Sylvan Meyer, | Title: Cops, Snow, Tickets Harry Barefoot Boy From Peach State | 3/16/1951 | See Source »

Michael's Inishmurray had no police, no magistrate, no roads, no shops­and no taxes. Although a lone Protestant resident, a schoolteacher who spent a short time on the island in the early 1800s, was held responsible for "the land losing its fertility and the fish forsaking the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRELAND: The Broth of a King | 1/22/1951 | See Source »

The Royal Seat. A rectangular chunk of yellow sandstone was missing from the base of a 654-year-old chair in which 27 British monarchs had sat for coronation. Edward I had brought the Stone to London in 1296 to celebrate his 21-day campaign against Scotland, had the coronation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Stone of Destiny | 1/8/1951 | See Source »

Station Five was marked "Urinalysis." There was a short man there, sitting behind a small table and grinning pleasantly; opposite him, on a long bench, sat a group of men fingering their cloth bags and staring uncomfortably across the room. An empty jar rested on the table, and the short...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: CABBAGES & KINGS | 12/13/1950 | See Source »

"Walk Softly, Stranger," the new Valli--Joseph Cotten epic proves only that the impact of "The Third Man" rested on a great deal more than the names in its cast. Perhaps with another superb musical background which could have created a powerful mood or submerged the action completely, these stony...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Walk Softly, Stranger | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

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