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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over the world, there was clear and heartening evidence that the American conception of a modern, modified capitalism, in which benefits are shared by all, had been wholeheartedly adopted by the Old World, which once restricted the benefits to a comparative few. Anyone with eyes to see could find the symbols of this capitalism in 1959. It was a year when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Business: Hard Work and Vast U.S. Investment Begin to Pay Off | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...Photocopies. The monumentally projected scope of the collected Papers is a publishing feat that would have delighted the man who signed himself "B. Franklin, Printer," and was as proud of his craft as of his country. The co-sponsors of the Papers, Yale University and the American Philosophical Society, aided by a grant from LIFE, expect the project to run to 40 volumes appearing over the next 15 years. For the past 5½ years, Editor Leonard W. Labaree, Farnam Professor of History at Yale, and his associate, Whitfield J. Bell Jr., have combed libraries and personal collections from Leningrad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: American Sage | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

Razor's Edge. By far the best story in the book is George P. Elliott's satire, Among the Dangs. The Bangs are a homicidal South American tribe and the reluctant adventurer conned into going among them is a penniless college student who has taken an anthropology course, and who further qualifies, as he notes, by being "a good mimic, a long-distance runner, and black." His university persuades him to go, and when he returns, crawling with data and skin disease, he is rewarded with a lowly academic post...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Short & Sour | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

Goldilocks the Victim. But even the present volume has its moments. With great glee, Miller lampoons the shock of the American tourist upon first encountering a Paris pissoir, adding: "I do not find it so strange that America placed a urinal in the center of the Paris exhibit at Chicago. I think it belongs there, and I think it a tribute which the French should appreciate. True, there was no need to fly the Tricolor above it." Oddly enough, the best piece is Miller's account of how, a little squiffed from cognac, he told the story of Goldilocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Miller Expurgated | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA,TELEVISION,THEATER,BOOKS: Time Listings, Dec. 28, 1959 | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

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