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Strong oriticiem keynoted the Young Progressives' German Peacs Festival report last night. The speaker, Robin Briehi 2M, extolled the accomplishments of the Festival in the interests of world peace, but met with angry rebuffs from members of the audience...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Audience Blasts German Festival At HYP Meeting | 2/21/1952 | See Source »

...lizard, fell in love with the island and made it his soul's operating base. In his middle 40s, he denounced Christian conventions as a sham, declared that Western civilization was inferior to Oriental culture, made a faint bow to convention by closing all letters to his son Robin with: "Brush your teeth twice a day!" He might have made a fortune from his annotated anthology, Some Limericks, but its obscenities would have made its open sale a criminal offense in Britain and the U.S. In describing a South Wind character, Douglas carved his own epitaph: "He knew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 18, 1952 | 2/18/1952 | See Source »

Returning from Paris recently, a Paulista friend brought Baby's bride-to-be a Cartier cigarette lighter adorned with a sapphire as big as a robin's egg. The friend was Sáo Paulo's fabulous press lord, Assis Chateaubriand, 60, who shares Baby's dislike for Matarazzo and likes to print whole pages of pictures of underpaid Matarazzo workers and their crowded hovels. "Chatô's" head office, two of his 28 newspapers and one of his TV stations are in Sáo Paulo. So is his new Museu de Arte...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: City of Enterprise | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

...thing to watch." This thing of beauty was exhibited over the Christmas holidays in the innocuous form of the fourth annual Lawrenceville School Invitation Tournament. This tourney, sponsored by near-by Lawrenceville, brings about 16 private school New England hockey teams to Princeton's Baker Rink for a round-robin affair. Princeton gets into the act not only by providing the rink, but by putting up the schoolboy skaters at the Prospect Street eating clubs. Every effort is made by the Princeton sports hierarchy to insure that when the athletes to the North. Old Nassau will not be forgotten...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BETWEEN THE LINES | 1/19/1952 | See Source »

...weakling whose weakness made him a Fascist. Carlo Levi (Christ Stopped at Eboli) came a cropper with The Watch, a sympathetic but unfocused look at his postwar land, but Giuseppe Berto followed an uneven first novel (The Sky Is Red) with The Brigand, the story of an Italian Robin Hood which exposed the despair of ordinary people with a fine mixture of candor and sympathy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Year in Books | 12/17/1951 | See Source »

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