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Was she downhearted? Not noticeably. Lugging a trunkful of filthy lucre, Polly enrolled at U.C.L.A. and three years later, with the help of a good rewrite man, published her class thesis: A House Is Not a Home. In 1962 the old cat died a literary lion.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Queen of Tarts | 9/4/1964 | See Source »

Everyone has a trunkful of his own.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fads: Elephants by the Trunk | 8/2/1963 | See Source »

Cache sans Craft. A kind of nostalgic gallantry accounts for this whole maimed and meandering book. Author O'Connor is less concerned with the fates of Charlie Carmody and Father Kennedy than with the fate of the entire Irish-American community in an unnamed city that is obviously Boston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Something About the Irish | 6/9/1961 | See Source »

For once, the glacial calm of G.M. was cracked. Summoning reporters to a hastily called news conference, G.M. opened a trunkful of evidence in defense of the rear-engine car. Declared Maurice Olley, a retired G.M. director of research and development on suspension systems: "Some makes of front-engine cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Rear-End Rumble | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

Dreamboat Squealer Elvis Presley, 22, got a 60-day draft deferment in order to complete a movie (TIME, Dec. 30), prepared for his farewell to soft civilian life by donating a trunkful of his cuddly stuffed Teddy bears, plus two black and white toy pandas and a fake koala, to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 6, 1958 | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

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