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make that bright mistake: I tell you-he's a dummy: aye, a fiction and a fake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 9, 1952 | 6/9/1952 | See Source »

...rasps out his gospel. Motes encounters a series of characters even more bizarre than himself. There is Sabbath Lily Hawks, an adolescent degenerate who takes Motes as a temporary lover. Sabbath's daddy, a fake blind man, is one of Motes's competitors in street preaching; another is Onnie Jay Holy, whose religious interest runs mainly to the collection plate. Motes's career comes to a gruesome end when he deliberately blinds himself because a mean-spirited cop has pushed his unlicensed Essex over a cliff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Southern Dissonance | 6/9/1952 | See Source »

Well magnetized, she is drawn to a second guru's colony for would-be initiates. This turns out to be a clip joint where the believers turn in all their worldly goods to a matronly supply sergeant known as the "Divine Mother." Liz spots it all for a fake and heads back to Guru No. 1. In the meantime, steady old Charles has got himself into a diplomatic jam. Reminding herself of the guru's "Truth is in your own heart," Liz looks there, finds she still loves Charles, flies back to help him face the music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: O Guru, My Guru | 6/2/1952 | See Source »

...Commander Anthony Talerico, U.S.N., entitled "Sea of Decision." Almost word for word, many parts of it were identical with the so-called "Fechteter report." Instead of being a state paper, the arguments were the hazy theorizing of an unknown junior officer in an unofficial publication. Caught with a fake, Le Monde sadly concluded that there was "a great, similarity" in the documents, and added: "The 'Fechteler document...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Le Monde at Bay | 5/26/1952 | See Source »

...artificial figure. It must be perfectly done." Says Svanidze: "I learned afterward that the body of Lenin had been replaced by a substitute made at Kazan," and the decomposing body secretly cremated. The body that hundreds of the faithful now patiently queue to see, says Author Svanidze, is a fake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Kremlin Waxworks | 5/19/1952 | See Source »

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