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...city streets from dawn to sundown. They furnish the common man's music: the oompah of his visions, the clanging of his troubles, the tra-la-la of his frolicking loves. Some notable feature of design or decoration gives them distinctive names: "Big Belly," "Buffalo," "Water Jug," "Rug Beater," "Cement Mixer" (for an oversized grinding wheel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Barrel-Organ Virtuoso | 6/30/1952 | See Source »

...dealing with a man Truman had criticized for attempts to use influence in Washington. Would McKinney be asked to resign? Truman's jaw shot out and his voice crackled. McKinney, he said, suits him down to the ground. The President isn't going to pull the rug out from under McKinney just because something happened that the newspapers didn't like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: An Angry Man | 12/24/1951 | See Source »

...bruised, hungry-and occasionally punctured by bullets-one Harry Holcomb of Trail Creek took it easy at home. He was rewarded. A 250-lb. bear ambled into his parlor at 4 a.m.; Holcomb leaped out of bed, grabbed his rifle, firedand dropped the bear right where he wanted a rug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

...fiend : cft. Vag looked at the frayed spot in the rug. So grieved was the coming thing. Who was he, Vag, to act his face against progress? Cronin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/27/1951 | See Source »

...Gazing at the rich fur rug on her knees," Ethel answered warmly, "Very nice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Small but Costly Crown | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

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