Books: Mountain People - TIME
RIVER OF EARTH—James Still—Vikinq ($2.50). A sense of what is fitting, in the best meaning of th...
CRIME: Most Dangerous Man Alive
When a big car driven by a droop-cheeked, mild-eyed man bunted another last week in St. Joseph, Mic...
U.S. At War: Globaloney - TIME
It was the drag end of a dreary, routine day. In the House chamber, up rose Connecticut's fres...
Torts: Parishioners v. Church - TIME
In 1958, a disastrous fire at Chicago's Our Lady of the Angels grammar school took the lives of...
Study Gets Inside the World's "Brown Cloud"
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People: Jun. 2, 1961 - TIME
Baggy-eyed from a whirl of trips to Bangkok, New Delhi, Ankara, Oslo and Geneva, Secretary of State ...
Will We Travel Back (Or Forward) In Time?
Einstein proved we can travel forward by moving near light speed. Backward requires a wormhole, cosm...
'The Karate Kid' Review: Jackie Chan and Jaden Smith Do Kung Fu Fighting
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Complete List - Top 50 American Roadside Attractions
What better way to celebrate summer than by taking a road trip? Nestled between Niagara Falls, Mount...
Small Wonders - TIME
When he was nearly three years old, Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son would watch his mother a...
Movies: Indian Bummer - TIME
The director of Bend It Like Beckham redoes Jane Austen as a Bollywood musical. Now for the bad news...
Medicine: Easy Death - TIME
In an attempt to take an informal poll on the question of easy death, the Sunday Forum of the Akron,...
South Sudan: A Hidden Tour of Juba, the Newest World Capital
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Education: Upside Down Writer - TIME
About one child in ten is a "strephosymbolic" (twister of symbols). He tends to see or remember thi...
The Moon: A GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND
THE ghostly, white-clad figure slowly descended the ladder. Having reached the bottom rung, he lowe...
Taylor Swift Got Kanyed - Top 10 Outrageous Kanye West Moments
MTV Shows Taylor Swift barely had a chance to accept her award for Best Female Video at the 2009 MT...
Army & Navy - OPERATIONS: Merrill's Mules
They arrived in Calcutta from Missouri, Texas and Tennessee—two shiploads of bewildered, seasick, ...
U.S. At War: I'd Rather Have That Medal
On the White House appointment list were five notable callers—three marines, an Army private, and ...
Behavior: Analyzing Jewish Comics - TIME
It's just that it hurts less when you laugh...
The Fall of the Supermodel
They ruled for a decade, but now the Super Six are giving glamour away to actresses and gangly teens...
Radio: The Perfect Schnook - TIME
Alan Young decided when he was 14 that he would be an actor and that his specialty would be the rol...
THE NATION: Leadership (National Affairs / THE NATION)
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TIME Magazine Cover: Governor General John Buchan - Oct. 21, 1935 - Canada - World War II
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FASHIONS: By the Sweat of Thy Brow
It was a far cry from grandfather's roll top. But it was a desk, all right. There was even spa...
A Brief History of the Tylenol Poisonings
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Criminal Justice: Does Silence Mean Guilt?
"Silence gives consent." So runs an ancient maxim of common law, and from that maxim flows a widely...
Business: Classy Rings - TIME
Some cheaper sentimentWest Point cadets started the practice of wearing gold class rings in 1835. Bu...
GERMANY: Goebbels Up - TIME
Though his most implacable enemies admit his genius as a propaganda technician, few people in Germa...
Books: The Ordeal of Bernard DeVoto
MARK TWAIN AT WORK—Bernard DeVoto-Harvard ($2). The work of Mark Twain is America's literary ...
Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 2, 1940
I Love You Again (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) proceeds on the sound assumption that a conk on the head can...
Brazil: The Law of the Favelas
Rio de Janeiro's favelas are the dregs of a city, teeming slums where the crime rate makes Har...
Finance: Salvaging Salomon Brothers - TIME
A white knight and his new team fight to keep Solly afloat despite a tide of client desertions...
Who Is Ophiuchus? New Zodiac Sign Confuses Horoscopes
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