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"People in Virginia have to pay federal income taxes too," the agent assured him. For a dreadful moment it was so quiet in the office that you could hear a tendon snap. "You're kidding," gasped the doc. But everyone thought the doc was kidding. Last week in federal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXES: The Unhappy Chiropractor | 6/16/1952 | See Source »

Mamie's father, John Doud-a prosperous meat packer who retired from business in Boone, Iowa to leisure in a big house in Denver at the age of 36-did not oppose this female whimsy. But he was firm on the subject of Sunday afternoon tours in his Packard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The General's Lady | 6/2/1952 | See Source »

The whole dreadful business comes to an epic climax in another fine scene in which cad Boone and bounder Peter Lawford fight it out with bullwhips, while on a crag high above them, the bush bobby stands like an ibex and dispassionately sees that justice is done.

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Kangaroo | 5/31/1952 | See Source »

You want us Asians to fight on your side against Communism. Well, we are fighting at this very moment devils more dreadful . . . disease, poverty, ignorance. You are the richest country in the world, and the countries of Asia are the poorest . . .

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 12, 1952 | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

For the dreadful blitz days of 1940, the editorial in the London Times may have seemed a minor issue. But not to the Times's readers. The editorial had simply reported that out of a group of 31 children evacuated to the country, 19 did not know who was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Renaissance in Britain | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

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