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...Practical Joker. Before they met, the town was jolted when a stranger appeared at the Kane County recorder's office. In one hand was a chunk of ore, in the other a Geiger counter. The rock seemed to be super-rich with uranium. One prospector who saw it said: "It made that there jagger counter go nuts!" The stranger excitedly told the recorder where he had found the rock, in a seldom-visited foothill area west of town, the opposite direction from the February strike. He filed his claim for the usual 20 acres...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Geiger-Counter Murder | 5/31/1954 | See Source »

Bolivia's revolutionary Government, all spruced up and awaiting U.S. recognition, last week let super-rich Mauricio Hochschild out of jail and prepared to deport him. Jailed for counter-revolutionary plotting, the tin tycoon had escaped worse punishment by promising to keep out of Bolivia and her politics. Tricky Don Mauricio had always managed to keep a potent hand in Bolivian affairs (TIME, May 8). But President Gualberto Villarroel's regime evidently felt strong enough to deal with him in one way or another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: Tin King Sprung | 6/26/1944 | See Source »

Many an old proverb is made over, thus: "It is a very silly boy who isn't on to his old man." The summer sorrows of the super-rich are assuaged, with instructions for amusing the butler in the evenings, getting the chauffeur's collars starched, and so on. And the author modestly relates "How My Wife and I Built Our Home for $4.90" after the approved manner of the American Magazine. Ladies' culture and gents' luncheon clubs, of which Mr. Leacock addresses a great many, will find a few genial descriptions of themselves, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Laughing Leacock | 7/26/1926 | See Source »

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