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...crude maps have gone after the treasure. None of them found it, but more than 30 died trying. In 1931 a retired Government worker set out for Lost Dutchman's. Months later, his bleached skull was found, pierced by a bullet hole. A miner named Williamson, another named Lamb, a magazine writer named Scuelebtz, all followed maps into the Superstition Mountain fastness-and were never seen again. Only two years ago a prospector left his campsite in the middle of a meal and disappeared forever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARIZONA: Search for Last Dutchman's | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

...book also contains a playlet "by Tennessee Gleckle," which "takes place entirely in the womb of an unborn lamb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Toynbee Doob's Pal | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

...captive that was in the dungeon . . . and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead." But each house of the children of Israel was marked, as the Lord had commanded Moses, with the blood of a lamb so that the Lord could pass over his people and spare them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Samaritans | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

Nobody loves Hammer more than a Windsor butcher who has grown fat on selling the studio his offal: lamb tongues, entrails, eyeballs. Such "authentic art" is a priceless asset to Hammer, which also fills theater lobbies with promotional displays of headless bodies floating in tanks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOVIES ABROAD: Gold from Ghouls | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

...ocarina, then echoed itself in a series of guitar, xylophone and muted cowbell flights as vaporous and softly glowing as a Japanese watercolor. Cohn's Quotations, on the other hand, utilized 103 instruments (including the exposed strings of a grand piano, which one player walloped with a lamb's-wool-covered drumstick) to achieve frequent climaxes of crashing, ear-numbing virtuosity. But the composition's most effective moments were also the most subdued: a passage in which drums rolled with the distant tremble of thunder while the pod rattle and wood blocks chattered with the strident noises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Variations on a Brake Drum | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

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