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Last week the note fell due. Since the party till was empty, and its boss short of cash, the government bank attached 200 of the most valuable books in Lombardo's library...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Marx in Hock | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

Case Closed. In Painesville, Ohio, Policeman Leon Debolt investigated a girl's tearful complaint against her father, wrote his report on the case: "Daughter, 15 years old, stayed out till 3 a.m. Got paddled. Needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 26, 1950 | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

...Including Reader Bunker, 18. Composer Dallapiccola adapted his libretto from two works: The Torture of Hope, and some of the more sinister legends of 14th Century German prankster Till Eulenspiegel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 19, 1950 | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

...This business has ruined me for thinking," bestselling Humorist Max (Sleep Till Noon) Shulman complained to the Hartford (Conn.) Courant. "Every time I start thinking, a little voice intrudes and whispers, 'Hey, maybe there's a story in this somewhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 19, 1950 | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

There it was, the millennium between thumb and forefinger, all set to pop into the world's wide mouth. But history has always had a deft way of palming the millennium till later in the show; and in Frank Norris' tricky piece of pseudohistorical vaudeville, Nutro 29, now you see it now you don't, almost before the author can say nutrono-methylsilicaphe-noxycreosalic acid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Millennium Deferred | 6/5/1950 | See Source »

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