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...with puppets on strings waltzing around behind counter, basking in awed glances of little girls. Stuffed clowns sail by over head, hanging from stuffed oranges. Mechanical elephant nine feet high waves trunk in front of my face. Little man with red face tooting "Jingle Bells" on plastic fife...

Author: By Laurence D. Savadove, | Title: Cabbages and Kings | 12/15/1951 | See Source »

Winnie Ruth Judd, 46, the "blonde tigress" trunk slayer of 20 years ago (she shot two women friends, dismembered the bodies, shipped them from Phoenix to Los Angeles), made her fourth escape from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Back of Beyond | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

Japanese agents have also spotted the fingers of a fast-lengthening Russian rail and highway system, linking these troop dispositions and reaching toward the North Pacific shore. Partly completed: a northern trunk of the Trans-Siberian railway, from Lake Baikal eastward to the lower Amur River region. Under construction: a highway from the mid-Siberian maneuvering and training center of Yakutsk eastward toward Anadyr, near the tip of Siberia, facing Alaska; a railroad from Nikolaevsk to Kamchatka, circling the Sea of Okhotsk and making Japan's northern water flank in effect a Russian lake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ENEMY: Buildup In Siberia | 11/19/1951 | See Source »

...slung "K-310" is 18 ft. 4½ in. overall. It has the same basic engine as the Imperial, but horsepower has been stepped up from 180 to 310; the car can do 150 m.p.h. Added feature: a spare tire that can be swung out easily from the trunk compartment on counterbalanced springs. Chrysler has not yet decided whether to market the K-310. Approximate price, if it does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Nov. 19, 1951 | 11/19/1951 | See Source »

...reason for the change is that the earlier hour is more convenient, and more people attend. The chapel, instituted last spring by a group of undergraduates, was reopened at the beginning of the term. It is a made-over trunk room in the basement of L-entry in Eliot House, and is equipped with candles and benches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot Chapel Changes Service Time | 10/17/1951 | See Source »

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