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Even after the Canadian dollar climbed above the value of the U.S. dollar early this year, most Canadian tradesmen accepted U.S. coins at par rather than bother with fractional discounts. But U.S. coinage, which trickles in at a steady rate with tourists and travelers, tended to stay in Canada and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Small Change | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

To be against neutrality in Switzerland is like being against virtue or ice-cream sodas in the U.S. The Swiss, trusting in their mountains, their tough little army, and their luck, have not been in a war for 137 years, have determinedly stayed out of Europe's attempt to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Brave Professor | 9/1/1952 | See Source »

Arthur was cocky at first; later, chafing under asylum boredom, he became desperate. When he was released for a while, two years later, he was a broken man, and the rest of his life was to be a shuttle in & out of mental wards. When Arthur was free, he cadged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gallic Snake Pit | 7/7/1952 | See Source »

In film after film, Wayne has larned the bad 'uns that villainy don't pay. In Stagecoach, possibly the best western picture ever made, he laid low two badmen with his trusty Winchester, reloading for the second kill as he dived to the ground to dodge the bullets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Wages of Virtue | 3/3/1952 | See Source »

But for singers and musicians, things have not improved so much. If the musicians play loud enough for a singer to hear them distinctly, they may find themselves playing too loud for televiewers to hear anything else. Soprano Marguerite Piazza has to go it alone in her operatic arias, trusting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Come of Age | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

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