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Last week, after the Herald's expose, DuPre was "in a state of collapse" and "under doctor's care." Said Author Reynolds: "I am shocked and sad and very sorry for George." Random House Publisher Cerf took a more commercial view: this week he offered to refund the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Man Who Talked | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

Mephistopheles turned up in evening dress and top hat, instead of red tights. Marguerite did her hair in a high topknot instead of braids. Faust was a bumbling, bourgeois scholar working in a 19th century library (with high shelves and a stepladder) instead of a bare Gothic study. Otherwise, Gounod...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Faust First | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

Widener officials have done nothing to alleviate this situation. Last summer, with stall demands still rising, they even decreased the amount of available space by putting reference material on reading room shelves that were previously assigned to graduate students. Cafeteria-like Lamont, with its small number of books, obviously cannot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Place in the Stacks | 10/20/1953 | See Source »

Although Widener has room in some of the lower levels for more stalls, the number that could be added would be too small to relieve the shortage. Instead, unused shelves in the stacks could be partitioned into individual storage spaces and new shelves built along lower level walls. Those using...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Place in the Stacks | 10/20/1953 | See Source »

Though P. & G. still turns out some 500 million bars of Ivory Soap a year-enough to give everyone in the world four baths-Tide was soon revolutionizing the washday habits of the U.S., and the tide of revolution began to sweep soap flakes and granules on .to the back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SELLING: The Cleanup Man | 10/5/1953 | See Source »

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