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Dates: during 1940-1949
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His world was a paranoid Luna Park lit by alcohol and filled with ingenious contraptions for the exercise of harmless aggression and idiosyncratic suspicion. To find out if his servants were stealing canned goods, he set up an elaborate Dictaphone apparatus. To scare off kidnapers, he would prowl his grounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Self-Made Curmudgeon | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

Joe had a pretty hard boyhood. He wet his pants on his first day at school, and after his First Communion was sick as soon as he got back to his pew. When the little girl around the corner told him that Butch O'Hara had tried to kiss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Confessions of Joe | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

After reducing himself to an object as piteous and work-ridden as an aged charwoman's knee, Toombs wails an old refrain: "Waking up in the morning is the worst mistake that a housekeeper can make. You have the awful feeling that you are in debt to the day...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Laughing Gas | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

Vocational Training. In Salt Lake City, officials learned that Forger Mearle L. Markely had whiled away his year in state prison by printing up bogus checks in the prison print shop.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 17, 1949 | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

Crusader. In Fort Scott, Kans., Bus Driver Walter Anneberg fumed at a grade crossing while a freight train held up traffic for 25 minutes, stepped on the gas the minute it had passed, parked his bus on the tracks to stop an oncoming switch engine, and waved his fellow motorists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 17, 1949 | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

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