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Riposte. In Cleveland, Landlady Lea Paul complained that after she asked two female tenants to move, they: 1) packed glue into a lamp socket, 2) rubbed cold cream into the sofa cushions, 3) smeared textile bleach on the sofa, 4) glued an oriental throw rug onto the carpet, 5) poured a mixture of syrup, salt, coffee and sugar over the living room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 20, 1952 | 10/20/1952 | See Source »

...them the treatment was the same. Strapped to an operating table, they got three quick jolts of electricity-enough to start violent, involuntary convulsions before they lapsed into anesthetic coma. Next a thin, icepick-like leucotome was inserted under each eyelid, hammered home through the eye socket and into the brain. Carefully manipulating the two icepicks, the doctor severed the connection between thalamus and frontal lobes in the patient's brain. The entire operation took only ten minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mass Lobotomies | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

...Aunt ("I played the lead, directed it, cast it, sold the tickets, printed the posters, and hauled furniture to the school for scenery and props"). In a Masonic musical revue, she put so much passion into an Apache dance that she threw one arm out of its socket. Jamestown citizens still remember her explosive personality with wonder: it took quite a while for the dust to settle in Jamestown when Lucille finally left-for Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Sassafrassa, the Queen | 5/26/1952 | See Source »

...Philadelphia's Tenth Presbyterian Church. It does not matter to him that these illustrious preachers are all dead or that some of their audiences may number no more than 15 people. The trick will be turned by a spool of plastic tape and a standard 110-volt light socket. To distribute what he calls Portable Church Services, Barnhouse has turned to the tape recorder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Great Sermons on Tape | 12/17/1951 | See Source »

...have married, have two children. Gowan is strictly on the wagon, but doubts that he is the father of the elder child. Temple's case is worse. Secretly she yearns for the bad old days, licks the memory of evil as a tongue searches a newly empty tooth-socket. She gets her chance to sin again when Red's younger brother Pete shows up to blackmail her with a packet of her own racy love letters to Red. Staring at Temple, Pete soon forgets about money, and Temple almost forgets about honor and duty, until her Negro maid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sanctuary Revisited | 9/24/1951 | See Source »

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