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Since 1946, Poet and Pediatrician William Carlos Williams has been publishing parts of a long poem, Paterson. In between patients and the writing of an autobiography (to appear next fall), gingery Bill Williams, 67, has been letting his eye roam over the industrial area of northern New Jersey and has been thinking about the patterns and meanings of U.S. life. The result is Paterson, a scrapbook of daily life as Americans live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Poem of America | 7/16/1951 | See Source »

...held back, they took control of the city. Toward evening a car fetched Perón from the hospital. Finally, Pern and President Farrell appeared together on the palace balcony. The crowd roared. An afternoon newspaper had printed pictures of the demonstrators sneeringly titled: "The shirtless ones [descamisados] who roam our streets." Now Perón caught up the sneer as a weapon, shouted that he wanted to clasp all such descamisados to his bosom. Ever since, Peronistas have celebrated the day of the descamisados' loyalty. It was Perón's March on Rome. Four days later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Love in Power | 5/21/1951 | See Source »

...Free to Roam...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English | 4/21/1951 | See Source »

Otherwise, students may roam without check through time and type. the non-honors concentrator must take 12 half courses in English, of which four may be in related fields. The honors men have a heavier load...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English | 4/21/1951 | See Source »

...professor, ominous little bag in hand, scurries for hiding through dark, deserted streets in which floodlights roam eerily over huge posters bearing his picture. Piccadilly Circus becomes the desolate crossroads of a ghost city; Waterloo Station is an empty tomb except for confiscated pets and such prohibited excess baggage as trunks, tennis rackets and a sandwich man's sign ("The Wages of Sin Is Death"). On doomsday morning, from the city's rim, four army divisions move in for a house-to-house search...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 25, 1950 | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

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