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Murphy's platform is filled with assorted charges founded on the traditional claim that the Republicans are saving money only by excluding necessary public works. Admittedly, Herter has reduced expenses, but he has likewise given the first personal income tax relief in 33 years. And when Murphy's attacks are...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Herter for Governor | 10/28/1954 | See Source »

Journalist Koestler made his pilgrimage to Russia just in time for the great 1932 famine, and traveled all the way to fabled Bokhara, where the muezzin had been replaced by the morning loudspeaker ("Get up, get up, empty your bowels, do your exercises . . ."). When he fell in love with a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Out of the Labyrinth | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

Smashup, by Theodore Pratt (Gold Medal; paperbound. 25?). is a graphic reminder to drive carefully even when the life you save may not be your own. On the highways of a town called Center City, one car plows into another at 50 miles an hour. Score: one dead, one severely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tracing-Paper Realism | 9/6/1954 | See Source »

Sunday Morning Tag. Teddy carried daughter Alice "pig-a-back" every morning, and she took to addressing him somewhat irreverently as "Now, pig!" Little Kermit had fun "turning somersaults on the manure heap." Ethel and Archie invented a game of tag involving pokes and crossed fingers during the pastor'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Bear at Home | 8/16/1954 | See Source »

When 62-year-old Fronia Sexton started the Ironton (Ohio) Courier a year ago, almost everyone thereabouts-including Fronia herself-expected the daily to be the crowning glory of a successful business career. In the Ohio River towns of Ironton and Ashland. Ky., where even competitors called her a "business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Fronia's Folly | 8/9/1954 | See Source »

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