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...them will stay very long. In general, publishers will be well satisfied to see the last copies lying like mulch at the foot of the nation's Christmas trees. Meanwhile, for the next few weeks, they will be spread far & wide by the big wind of publicity. The ruddiest of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fall Foliage | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

...Telephone Rang. Last October, Michael's mother, Queen Helen, was summarily commanded to vacate her Banloc villa. Rumania's blowzy, blow-torchy Communist boss and Foreign Minister Ana Pauker, her ruddiest henchmen and Yugoslavia's Tito needed a meeting place. Tito arrived in a private train protected by 1,500 crack troops and a food-taster. The servants in the villa were locked up to insure privacy, and for four days (while Rumania's top Communists rustled their own food and made their own beds) the policymakers discussed Queen Helen's son Michael...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Compression | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

...Kipling showed what a dear fellow Tommy really was underneath his tough exterior, he was also known as "the brutal soldiery." Last week Thomas Atkins spoke up for himself, showed he was neither a dear fellow nor a brute, but a nice mixture of both. The wildest brawls and ruddiest language of Kipling's soldiers can be read unblushingly in a drawing-room. Private Richards' report, though peaceably expressed, is truer to bachelor life. Old Soldier Sahib has an honest animal smell, as exciting to plain citizens as a whiff from a lion's cage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Thomas Atkins | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

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