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Your picture of Paris in the rain [Aug. 30] might be consoling to those who wanted to go to Paris this summer and couldn't; it might also be seized upon with vindictive satisfaction by those who went and got rained upon . . . But to an old parigot, that beautiful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 20, 1954 | 9/20/1954 | See Source »

such as rape, suicide, murder or flagrante delicto . . . While maturer minds bad gered the survivors ... I scurried through bedrooms, poked noiselessly into closets, trunks and bureau drawers, and, the coveted photograph under my coat, bolted for the street." How to Be Happy. Armored Ben's first prose efforts took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In Rusty Armor | 6/21/1954 | See Source »

Senator McCarthy looked at the charts, charged that they were phony, accused the Army of giving Schine "black marks" for the same routine events that were indicated in white or omitted on the average man's chart. When Ryan's aide, 1st Lieut. John B. Blount, who was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Black, White & Khaki | 6/7/1954 | See Source »

"There they go, every spring, from New York to Los Angeles: exhibitionists, polemicists, histrionic publicists, theological rhetoricians, historical hoddy-doddies, balletomanes, ulterior decorators, windbags and bigwigs and humbugs, men in love with stamps, men in love with steaks, men after millionaires'" widows, men with elephantiasis of the reputation (huge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: The Lecturer's Spring | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

BACK-TO-NATURE "MODERN" tries to make the outdoors "a mere appendage to gracious living." Tree trunks serve as tables and the house looks like a quarry. "One of the major problems of the builder [used to be] the removal of boulders from the site. Now his difficulty is to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Back to Mohair? | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

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