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...front of his rickety wagon, an old gypsy said: "The past is dead. Gypsies cease their wandering. The race is the same but the spirit is going. Too many gypsies have grown rich. Even Coucou settled down. No one can take his place just now, maybe never." The old gypsy's grandchildren were busy admiring the shiny new trailer of a rich gypsy family camped alongside. On a lot nearby, young gum-chewing gypsies jitterbugged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERIPATETICS: A Sparrow Is Singing | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

...reformed stripper--she's been on the wagon, sartorially speaking, since February--disclosed a passion for a Hasty Pudding tie and a chance to sing in the legitimate opera...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stripper Bares Yen to Sing | 5/25/1948 | See Source »

Three Cambridge fire engines and six policemen mounted on a paddy wagon did their best to fish Frank V. Colombo '49 out of the Charles near River Street Bridge yesterday afternoon, but he refused their help...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Upset Scull Fails To Faze Oarsman | 4/22/1948 | See Source »

...last week, he had a rich, satisfying 18 hours. He had begun to get curious-and just a little nervous-about the Democratic bandwagon rolling towards General Ike's door. It was Roberts who had first given that wagon a shove down the Republican road and he who had announced-long in advance of Eisenhower's own statement-that Ike would decline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSOURI: K. C.'s Sun | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

...trouble is, the middle class is too respectable to blow off its tensions by getting mad, beating somebody up, and then being hauled away in the paddy wagon to cool down. Instead, it grits its teeth and swallows its hurts, thus producing duodenal ulcers or harsh treatment of the little woman. All the patients studied were above average in intelligence, which prompted the two doctors to conclude that "the more intelligent persons tend to have difficulties with recovery and adjustment to disability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Ailing Middle Class | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

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