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...Stool & Lectern. In 1953 Schwarz returned to this country again, developed his idea of a mass-effort Christian Anti-Communism Crusade, and eventually sold his medical practice in Sydney. Why did he do it? Explains Lillian May Schwarz, who remains in Australia with their three children and serves as secretary of the Christian Anti-Communism Crusade organization in her native country: "We feel that if Fred worked every hour of every day in Australia, he could not archieve nearly as much as he is achieving in America. If he awakens the U.S. to the full danger of Communism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Organizations: Crusader Schwarz | 2/9/1962 | See Source »

Faced with this transistorized stool pigeon, highway patrols are taking alarm, crying "Foul!" The city of Chicago, the District of Columbia, and the state of Connecticut have banned Radar Sentry. Other states take some comfort from the fact that Radar Sentry is erratic; in informal tests. New York experts found that even diathermy machines and neon lights can trigger its squeal. But if the gadget continues to sell, many states will consider banning it. Says New York State Motor Vehicle Commissioner William...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gadgets: Burble & Squeak | 1/19/1962 | See Source »

Around the league, Maris is known as a "loner" who shuns locker-room monkeyshines, rarely displays emotion on or off the field. After a ball game, still in uniform, Maris sits quietly on a stool in front of his locker for an hour or more, slowly consuming cans of beer and smoking cigarettes. "I just have to get the game out of my system," he says. Maris never answers fan mail personally ("I got enough work to do without writing letters"), makes few charity appearances. "The club shouldn't expect you to go to hospitals. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Making of a Hero | 9/29/1961 | See Source »

...London TV studio, Enceinte Terrible Eartha Kitt, 33. slunk before the cameras in a gown considerably more billowy than her wonted tattoo-tight attire, but not billowy enough to conceal her six-month condition. Called upon to mount a stool for one of her numbers, the sultry South Carolina songstress found it a struggle, outraged Britain's myriad Mrs. Grundys (and snarled network telephone switchboards with carping calls) by chuckling: "Okay, Junior, this is the last engagement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 25, 1961 | 8/25/1961 | See Source »

...that could be Mammoth Cave swallowing the Parthenon of Nashville, the American Shakespeare Festival at Stratford, Conn, last week opened a production of Troilus and Cressida. But what ho? There, on a camp stool, sat mighty Agamemnon, stroking his beard, smoking a ten-inch cigar, wearing the uniform of a Union general and looking for all the world like an actor dressed up to play Ulysses S. Grant. There too was doddering old Nestor, also wearing the blue, with binoculars around his neck. Menelaus wore pince-nez, and they all used the spittoon and the likker jug. The Trojan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Straw Hat: Vicksburg-on-Avon | 8/4/1961 | See Source »

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