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But the monetary masochists love it. There were 27,000 of them here Saturday and they crammed close to a million smackers through the mutual windows. By the time I left the paddock for the last race, they'd eaten all the hot dogs, guzzled all the orange soda, and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Horse Players Pack Lincoln Downs | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

Australia's Federal Parliament last year enacted a compulsory program of free drugs, in which the government would pay pharmacists for all prescriptions. But doctors have refused to cooperate, i.e., write prescriptions on government forms; they say free medicine has led to "tonic swilling" in nearby New Zealand. Parliament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Health Insurance Catalogue | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

Gustave Courbet was a handsome farmer's boy who grew up to be a beer-swilling, loud-mouthed giant-and one of the great painters of the 19th Century. While he lived, Courbet was generally belittled, and after his death he was eclipsed by the sunny brilliance of Manet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Big Fellow | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

Most of these serials deal with adventure ideas that have been worked to death already. But occasionally, script-writers emerge with some fortunate stroke that is worthy of Chester Gould, or possibly Al Capp. The Sword was such a creation, and anybody who cares to endure several dozen kiddie shows...

Author: By David E. Lillenthal jr., | Title: The Children's Hour: II | 11/18/1948 | See Source »

Shaw having fun means, sooner or later, Shaw having fun at society's expense. Pygmalion rags aristocratic pretensions by showing how easily aristocrats can be manufactured; it whacks away at middle-class morality, which would forbid all pleasure to the poor. But the satire in Pygmalion has worn less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Play in Manhattan, Jan. 7, 1946 | 1/7/1946 | See Source »

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