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It was a famous old sub name. Long before Robert Fulton puffed up the Hudson in his steamboat in 1807, he was experimenting with a long, platter-shaped submarine named Nautilus.* Jules Verne used the name for the spike-nosed boat commanded by Captain Nemo in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The Chambered Nautilus | 12/17/1951 | See Source »

Nothing but Animals. First prize went to Minna Harkavy's Two Men, a dead-serious head & shoulders study of two long-nosed, lantern-jawed characters, facing each other in solemn agreement. Miss Harkavy, 56, spent more than a year chipping, brushing and sandpapering the scabrous surface of her cast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Sculptors' Turn | 12/17/1951 | See Source »

The enemy formation was believed to have been sent to cover a Communist attack on U.N.-held islands near the mouth of the Yalu. In any case, the lumbering, thin-skinned bombers were slaughtered like sheep. After the battle, eight TUs, three LAs and one red-nosed MIG had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AIR WAR: Tallyho! | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

From the moment Alexander parked his Ford (a car he soon traded for a flashy Chrysler), the school became a teacher's nightmare. He packed a snub-nosed .38 pistol tucked in his waistband. He had a switch knife with which he picked his teeth. He flashed a roll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Teacher's Nightmare | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

Organized Chaos. Though not the highest-paid, George Price is probably the funniest cartoonist alive. With a line as lean as Arno's is broad, Price pilots a button-eyed, beak-nosed, slack-jowled crew of slovens through a maze of organized chaos. "I never saw two fighters more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wonderful & Weird | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

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