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...There is no more story line than the splash of frogs at play. Suddenly, two herons goose-step into the pond. But the lily pads, like huge oriental fans, hide the frogs from their enemies. Frolicking again, the frogs ride a turtle like a raft. Time for a supper snack of algae and dragonfly eggs, and the frogs' perfect day is done. Mrs. Kepes draws the way jazz sounds, and her book is an improvised underwater lyric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: For Children | 8/4/1961 | See Source »

...next 26 years Reporter Davis seemed to visit every country and to cover every war-at $1,000 a week plus expenses. In England Davis hobbed so intimately with the nobs that the P.M., Arthur Balfour, used to drop by at his rooms for a shank-of-the-morning snack. In Venezuela he ate his first avocado, promptly introduced the fruit to the U.S. market. In Cuba he wrote fiery dispatches that, front-paged by Hearst, helped to push the U.S. into war with Spain; and once war was declared, R.H.D.'s spectacular reports on the Rough Riders helped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Richard the Literary Lion | 4/7/1961 | See Source »

...quick visit to Georgetown University Hospital to see Wife Jacqueline and their new son, he vanished to the suburbs for an hour's chat with Pundit Walter Lippmann. Next night in Manhattan two policemen knocked on his hotel door to ask if he would care for a midnight snack. Getting no answer, they went inside, found only a slightly mussed bed, a discarded Kennedy shirt; Jack had slipped away to visit friends. The following afternoon, with the connivance of the Secret Serv ice, Kennedy adeptly eluded the press to go on a Christmas shopping excursion to Tiffany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENT-ELECT: Changing of the Guard | 12/19/1960 | See Source »

...wanted was a sandwich and a cup of tea while his bus made a brief stop in Richmond, Va. But Bruce Boynton, a law student at Washington's Negro Howard University, wanted to eat his snack in the white section of the bus terminal's segregated lunchroom. A restaurant official ordered Boynton to leave, and when Boynton declined, called the cops. Boynton was fined $10 in police court, and his conviction was upheld by Virginia's Supreme Court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SUPREME COURT: Limited Victory | 12/19/1960 | See Source »

...please its customers, the European Exchange System (2,918 branches), biggest of 14 PX districts, has built seven PX drive-in snack bars along West German Autobahnen with such names as Java Junction and Dine-A-Mite. Over the past ten years the European System has nearly doubled its stock of items, which now includes Italian fashions, men's custom-tailored suits, frozen pheasants and ten different brands of can openers. The PX system also includes barbershops, delicatessens, auto parts shops, dry cleaning and laundry service, and shoe, watch and radio repair shops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: The Serviceman's Utopia | 8/15/1960 | See Source »

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