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Both parties have their own personalized stationery and organizations. The letter-heads are recognizable in a glance, but it takes an entire day to plow through the hierarchy of offices. The Democratic headquarters, for example, is listed on Bowdoin Street, which as it turned out, is a tricky way of...

Author: By Cliff F. Thompson, | Title: Campaign Confusion | 11/2/1954 | See Source »

In the tricky first bars of Weber's Der Freischiitz overture, the French horns were as rich as a Rembrandt painting, and the big string section gave off an aura as warm as the old rose of the eleven cellos. The Concertgebouw made less noise than the best U.S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dutch Treat | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

More Stories is as good reading and as honest writing as short-story fans can hope to get, now that good short stories, and publishers willing to publish them, are as rare as blondes in Killarney. There are no writing tricks and no tricky characters; mostly Irish girls who wish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Irish Are People | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

Tricky Legal Point

Author: By Samuel B. Potter, | Title: Arboretum: Dry Leaves and Discontent | 10/21/1954 | See Source »

But game birds are a tricky breed. As old Hunter Hemingway says, they all fly different ways. A man who can plug a teal zigzagging upward out of marsh grass may have a tough time sighting in on a flight of mallard drumming toward him. Learning to lead a speedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A TIME FOR DUCKS | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

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