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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Author Raymond Chandler (The Big Sleep), master of the hard-guy school of crime fiction, openly sneered (in the Saturday Review of Literature) at those who prefer the too-too refined type of whodunit ("That charming Mrs. Jones-whoever would have thought she would cut off her husband's head with a meat saw? And such a handsome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Personal Approach | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

Born. To Mickey Rooney, 29, perennial cinemadolescent and Starlet Martha Vickers (The Big Sleep), 25; their first child, Rooney 's third (two boys by an earlier marriage), a son. Name: Ted Michael. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 24, 1950 | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

Thanks, Sir, cried I, 'tis very fine, But where d'ye sleep and where d'ye dine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Tea with the Duke | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

...eulogies for blue jays fried in butter: "The best meat I ever had in the hills." He was in a more philosophical mood the day he stood on top of Darling Mountain and felt "a challenge to explore each ridge and valley, to climb each snow-capped peak, to sleep in each high basin, to sample the berries and fish and all the other rich produce of the wilderness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What Mountains Are Good For | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

...compared with that served in such houses as Adams and Dunster, we in Leverett have other advantages. Usually one can arise leisurely around 9:00, shower, shave, read the paper, or what have you and still get into the dining hall for breakfast around 9:20. And if you sleep even later, and present yourself at the door with a warm smile you can be served up till 9:30. On Sundays many of us at the "Hutch" do not eat breakfast until shortly before...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bunny Retorts | 4/12/1950 | See Source »

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