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Anybody who has ever collected star fish well knows how an interesting object can in a few days turn into a wad of putrid decay; this latest addition to the literature of the down-and-out is a sign that we have a literary star fish on our hands that must be buried, and quickly...

Author: By Edmund B. Games, | Title: Back to Beatland Again: A Study in Moral Decay | 5/15/1959 | See Source »

...festival pavilion is of a different, tougher breed. Marko Zuckerman's eyes speak, "Mongol-wise," of historic rapacity and plunder. His past is a mystery; all that is known of him is that he fled Hungary after World War II, showed up briefly in Paris with a big wad of money, then settled in Britain to amass more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The New Man | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

...Lean Detroit Righthander Jim Bunning, chomping impassively on a wad of gum, hit a batter and walked two, but struck out twelve others, got Red Sox Slugger Ted Williams on a routine outfield fly for the last out to wrap up a 3-0 victory at Boston's Fenway Park, become the first major leaguer to pitch a no-hit game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Jul. 28, 1958 | 7/28/1958 | See Source »

...complaining that CBS was about to stage a play whose off-Broadway version in 1954 pleaded "for soft handling of suspected Communists." The story sent Madison Avenue into a flap, and ad agencies for go's five sponsors talked of backing out. Officials at CBS rushed down a wad of proposed script changes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Backstage at Playhouse 90 | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

...Test. In Rome, after suspicious policemen took Blind Man Federico Pugliese, 29, to the station, passed a luscious pastry before his eyes, with no flicker of recognition, a wad of 10,000-lira bills, with no result, a pack of pinups which made him take notice, he yelled: "You cheat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 15, 1957 | 7/15/1957 | See Source »

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