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As any visitor to the untidy London flat might guess, it houses an old bachelor. In the sitting room, a hastily thrown coverlet drapes an obviously unmade bed. A litter of books, manuscripts and knick-knacks lines walls and floors like the twigs of a nest. Amiably at home in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Untidy Old Bird | 11/19/1951 | See Source »

Seventy-two-year-old E. M. Forster is almost as rumpled and untidy as his rooms. The tweeds he wears are worn and baggy, his thinning grey hair unruly, his bushy grey mustache in need of a trim. Bony and angular, with pale, piercing eyes, he looks, as one American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Untidy Old Bird | 11/19/1951 | See Source »

Scientists who believe in God are simply exposing dark, untidy corners of their minds. Those who say they cannot accept chaos probably mean they cannot accept the ignorance which they humbly offer as a promise for their belief . . .

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 3, 1951 | 9/3/1951 | See Source »

The great American game of gouging the G.I. is going full blast. Wherever the training camps are full to overflowing, the nearby towns small, and housing scarce, the chiselers are out. So reported the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee, headed by Texas Democrat Lyndon Johnson, this week, after inspecting more than 20...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Anything for the Boys | 7/23/1951 | See Source »

"Take It Easy!" Huge and untidy in a rumpled brown suit, Wolfe reminded his companions of a "big, awkward bear." When the beer and liquor flowed, he was anything but bearish, but as the white Ford bounced down steep canyon roads he kept bawling to the driver, "Take it easy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Last Look Around | 7/2/1951 | See Source »

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