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Down in the islands, the sound of crashing surf was temporarily drowned out by the echo of charge and countercharge. Aroused pro-and anti-Paiewonsky factions fired hundreds of messages to Washington, about 9 to 1 in Paiewonsky's favor. Said Novelist Herman (The Caine Mutiny) Wouk, who lives on St. Thomas: "Paiewonsky is the best man." In Charlotte Amalie, the Seventh-day Adventist Church said prayers for Paiewonsky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Virgin Islands: A Rum Go | 3/31/1961 | See Source »

Champion Patterson had rented a villa on Florida's east coast, just a stroll away from the Atlantic surf. But Patterson could hardly have cared less. "This is a vacation spot," he said. "But I'm not here for fun." Sixty-five miles northward, at Palm Beach's Sea Breeze motel, Challenger Johansson took his turn in an open-air, rooftop training ring, and dunked himself in a nearby, palm-girdled swimming pool. "Ah," said Ingo, "this is the perfect place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Round Three | 3/10/1961 | See Source »

...bright Sunday morning, and the beach was thronged with sun-roasters, surf-coasters, bikini-oglers and juvenile sand-throwers. Suddenly a wild-looking man garbed like an Old Testament prophet loped across the sand and hurled himself into the waves. Loungers looked up, transistor-radio earplugs popped out of ears. Again and again the man plunged into the sea, and a crowd began to gather. Before people knew what had happened, they were listening to the dripping prophet tell the story of Naaman the leper, who threw himself seven times into the River Jordan and was miraculously healed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: On the Beach | 2/17/1961 | See Source »

Gregory's first two weeks at the Playboy were so successful that he has been held over for another three. With dates lined up at San Francisco's hungry i, Cincinnati's Surf Club, and Freddie's in Minneapolis, he has also caught the interest of New York's Blue Angel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedians: Humor, Integrated | 2/17/1961 | See Source »

...describe the attribution of human characteristics to inanimate objects," and has been described as "a confusion of actual meteorological conditions with the weather in the soul." Any moviegoer or TV watcher-dimly aware that acts of love seem to occur in the presence of windblown oatfields or sexily curling surf, and that crises seldom take place without timpani and brass on the sound track-is the plaything of the pathetic fallacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rhetoric for Everybody | 2/3/1961 | See Source »

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