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...Snob. In Sherman Oaks, Calif., when Robert Eschback was arrested on suspicion of pulling a stickup at a supermarket, he said he was never mixed up in that sort of thing: "I'm strictly a burglar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 30, 1959 | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

...psychiatrist but a general practitioner, Crete-born Dr. Bontzolakis. 51, divides abstractionists into two classes. By far the larger: the poseurs, attracted by snob appeal, laziness, money or mere lack of talent. These, he finds, are rarely neurotic. But about one-third of his patients are passionately sincere, and they have both emotional and physical symptoms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Rorschach in Reverse | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

...believe all the pessimistic reports I hear about Squaw Valley and the coming Olympics after reading about Alec Gushing (Feb. 9). He sounds like a snob...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 2, 1959 | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

Bravo for Alec Gushing. Why waste time catering to cash customers when the State of California is willing to dole out $4,000,000, and then Uncle Sam, not to be outdone, forks over an equal amount. Gushing gets my vote for snob-con man of the year. HERB AMMERMULLER Great Neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 2, 1959 | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

Author Johnson's novel covers the last summer of Skipton's life. A party of English tourists comes to Bruges, and Skipton sets out to fleece them for his winter wear. He finds a whore for one of the men and snob delights for the woman in the party; for both sexes he arranges a Pigalle-type "spectacle." But by summer's end Skipton has himself been swindled out of what little money remains to him: his sole consolation is that death is close enough to save him from the agonies of another winter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unholy Terror | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

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