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Wolfe will most likely be denounced for creating comic characters who accurately reflect familiar and self-important fixtures in New York life. At the top of the heap are "social X rays," rumpless women of a certain age who believe one cannot be too rich or too thin. Sixtyish men of this stratum are frequently accompanied by "lemon tarts," sleek, young blonds. Sherman McCoy is a decent well-bred sort, neither more nor less lustful than most confident 38-year-old males and particularly amusing when he gives facts and figures about how one can go broke in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Haves and the Have-Mores THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES by Tom Wolfe; Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 659 pages; $19.95 | 11/9/1987 | See Source »

...cases of seven district contests which had been handed to Taft delegates by the Jackson-controlled state committee. After that, it placed Taftmen in the four delegate-at-large seats. Then, as if fearing that the state committee had gone too far, it gave the two seats from the rumpless Third District back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Louisiana's 15 | 7/14/1952 | See Source »

Having spent my first 18 years in the country nearest the Isle of Man (no, not England), I have long been aware that when a Manx cat is suspended by its tail, its eyes drop out. But what is this about rumpless chickens [Tore, Oct. 6]? Kindly elucidate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 3, 1941 | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

...Manx chickens are not really rumpless. They are a freak breed born practically without tail feathers, thus look rumpless when viewed in profile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 3, 1941 | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

...Isle of Man, famed for rumpless chickens, tailless cats and interned British Fascists, had trouble with its Fascists last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISLE OF MAN: Trouble in Camp | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

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