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Many live in trailers in order to get from job to job (defense workers and servicemen account for more than 52% of the market). But more & more retired couples, tired of housecleaning chores and high living costs, are moving into homes on wheels. "Many people have the idea that only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Trailer Life | 11/17/1952 | See Source »

In contrast to this, both Charles Laughton and David Wayne soar far beyond O. Henry's narrow limits in The Cop and the Anthem. Both are tramps who spend the summer in New York's parks, the winter in its jails. But getting into "a nice, warm cell" is not...

Author: By Michael Maccoby, | Title: Full House | 10/8/1952 | See Source »

One pleasant Edwardian day, that paragon of propriety, Henry James, went down to Sussex to pay a call on G. K. Chesterton. "It was a very stately call," wrote Chesterton, with James all buttoned-up in a frock coat. Suddenly, a terrible bellowing broke out and two unshaven hoboes in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sailor, Poet, Grizzlebeard | 12/24/1951 | See Source »

Listening to the records, many will feel like the Frost fan who once told the poet he never knew how to read Frost until he heard him talk. But as Frost reads Mending Wall, Two Tramps in Mud Time, The Death of the Hired Man, and 21 others, it becomes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vermont Talk | 9/24/1951 | See Source »

The strong point of "The Magnet" is its plot, which is clever and fresh. The film moves quickly as it follows Johnny from his home to the back alloys near the docks, a biscuit factory, and the equipment room of an underwater salvage firm. He meets doctors, sailors, tramps, and...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/1/1951 | See Source »

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