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No one was more pleased than South Africa's ostrich king, 78-year-old Max Rose, who owns 8,000 birds. He sleeps by day in a hotel room in Oudtshoorn, breakfasts at midnight in his big, untidy office, heaped high with bundles of ostrich feathers, and works while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: The Feather Merchants | 5/7/1951 | See Source »

Tobey's paintings appeal primarily to a tight circle of cognoscenti, but the man himself perfectly fills the popular picture of an artist. His leonine head is half snowed under by his untidy white hair; he drapes his bulky frame in handsome Harris tweeds, wears a carelessly slung scarf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Seattle Tangler | 4/9/1951 | See Source »

A swashbuckling stage piece about the Ireland that ran more to liquor than to leprechauns, The King of Friday's Men has some of the old Irish gift of words, while Dowd has some of the mighty human dimensions of folklore. And Actor Macken, who first played the part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Mar. 5, 1951 | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

Students whose rooms were listed as "chronically untidy" in Christmas and spring vacation inspections will go to the bottom of the class list.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe Applies Today For Room Allotments | 4/12/1950 | See Source »

During the first days of World War II, when King George's mother was sent from London to the comparative safety of the ancient Gloucestershire estate of Badminton, one of the first things to catch her eye was an untidy tangle of hawthorn. She promptly resolved to clean it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Her Majesty | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

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