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Within a Budding Grove. All these arguments are plausible enough, but they cannot hold soup when the pro-beards come into action. Beavered Irishmen, for example, have always insisted that a beard is much handier and more absorbent than a table napkin (Author Reynolds concedes that his source for this is an English historian). Similarly, the 19th Century French Romantics demonstrated beyond doubt that by growing a broad enough beard a man could wear the same shirt collar for months on end. Moreover, as one authority has estimated, a bearded man could learn seven languages in the time spent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hair Apparent | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

...High. Indianapolis. Gresham Glen Edward of 210 Highland Avenue, Highland Park Mich.; Highland Park High, Osnes. David Marvin of 1530 Wellesley Drive Detroit: Cranbrook School Bloomfield Hills. Mich Piehl, DeWayne Jorvian of Box 42. RR No. 2 St. Joseph, Mtch; St. Joseph High Stegman Anthony Edward of 2882 Oak Grove Drive, Poatiac Mtch.: Catholic Central High Detroit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scholarship Lists Released | 6/21/1949 | See Source »

...spark." He loves volunteer firefighting, has wangled a fire department sign for his car so he can drive right up to the fire lines. He also carries an honorary police commissioner's gold badge, likes to loaf around police headquarters. During Boston's 1942 Cocoanut Grove fire, in which 492 died, Fiedler was stationed at a morgue. During the war, like many other Bostonians over military age, he took his turn on small Coast Guard Auxiliary craft patrolling Boston Harbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: With a Broad Ah | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

Philbrick said that Martha Fletcher, wife of Harold A. Fletcher 3G, gave such instructions to a five-member Communist party unit which met in her home at 15 Grove Street, Boston. Using "The History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union" as a text, Mrs. Fletcher defined an unjust war as one occurring between the United States and Russia, Philbrick said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: F.B.I. Agent Says Student's Spouse Preached Revolt | 4/13/1949 | See Source »

...months ago, the 2,000-tree lemon and orange grove of Gabriel Ramirez, near Valles, on the Pan American Highway, was a rich and blooming place. Last week, like most orchards in the lush, hot valley, Ramirez' trees were soot-black with the leaf-ravaging larvae of the mosca prieta (citrus black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Fly Fight | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

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