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...deep, has no water. Rent: $45 a month, later reduced by the rent-control office to $35. shack made of whisky bottles, beer cans and oil cans, cemented together, cost a corporal, his wife and two children $25 a month. There was no bathroom. The water supply: an untidy well next door.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Anything for the Boys | 7/23/1951 | See Source »

...might guess, it's difficult to keep things going in the little out-of-the-way shack where they all gather. One of the bandits in a pretty sadistic character who chases Sue and takes pot shots at the little baby. But the bad men finally are killed. And all in all, "Rawhide" is pretty good fun, although it may tire non-devotees of the horse opera...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: The Moviegoer | 6/12/1951 | See Source »

...most painted object in the U.S. is probably a weather-beaten, 84-year-old fishing shack in Rockport, Mass, known to artists, professional and amateur, as "Motif No. 1." Rockport citizens have long taken jealous pride in preserving its warped red siding and sagging shingles in a state of paintworthy dilapidation. A year ago the tenant, Dana Vibert, lobster dealer, strung overhead wires to the shack to run an electric pump. Horrified art colonists demanded that he take them down; they spoiled the charm. Replied Vibert: "If you don't like the wires, don't paint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Citizens to the Rescue | 6/4/1951 | See Source »

Leonard's interceptor mission began at McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey, where he learned the working details of the radar warning net. After dinner he put on coveralls and crash helmet, headed for the "ready shack." There he was shown how to operate the plane's radar panel, which would pick up the other F94 sent out to be "enemy" and then guide the pilot in for the "kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Apr. 16, 1951 | 4/16/1951 | See Source »

...sporting, but involves more risk. When you park leave three nickels on the meter. No police officer has the energy to insert a coin in the meter, but even one who spends his days shouting "don't walk" and "walk now" from the warm comfort of the Harvard Square shack will appreciate your good intentions. Unless some hungry lad from Adams House wanders by you will get both a free park and your nickels back. Of course, the necessity of prior investment takes the keen edge off this tactic...

Author: By Sylvan Meyer, | Title: Cops, Snow, Tickets Harry Barefoot Boy From Peach State | 3/16/1951 | See Source »

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