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"A falling out among thieves" was the way Chicago's Police Superintendent Orlando W. Wilson put it. In fact, it was more of a falling down of bodies. Six members of Chicago's underworld were killed in just ten days, a rate of extinction that compared favorably with...
The book business is booming, classical recordings are selling by the stack, and art galleries are thriving. But Columbia University's Dean of Faculties Jacques Barzun gloomily contends that, in fact, the age is witnessing an end to Art. Says Barzun, writing in the British monthly Encounter: "The Romantic...
Abolition & Revolution. Barzun (TIME cover, June 11, 1956) ascribes this self-extinction to two influences that conflict with each other at the same time that they drive toward "the same Carthaginian end." The first is the group he labels the "Abolitionists," those creators of romantic art in literature, painting and...
For more than three years, almost unnoticed, and with dwindling success, the men who launched the "Colonels' Revolt" in 1958 have held out in Indonesia's remote jungles. But last week the revolt finally spluttered to virtual extinction. While President Sukarno preened himself among his neutralist peers in...
For all the five years that he was president of the hapless New Haven Railroad, Boston Attorney George Alpert moved up and down the land preaching that only Government subsidies could save the nation's railroad passenger operations from extinction. The Interstate Commerce Commission, historically opposed to rail subsidies...