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Wyke is a vestigial man, a remnant of the Golden Age of detective fiction that, for all practical purposes, came to an end in the early 1930s. His was the age of aristocratic crime and criminal butlers, an age that shrugged off the brutal questions of murder and the criminal...

Author: By Richard Shepro, | Title: Crime to a Bittersweet Tune | 2/9/1973 | See Source »

So cried British Labor M.P. Jack Ashley last month during a House of Commons debate on a subject that has roused his countrymen as few issues have done in recent years: compensation for some 400 children who were born deformed after their mothers took the tranquilizer thalidomide between 1958 and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: The Thalidomide Affair | 1/22/1973 | See Source »

Ironically, Patullo recognizes that Universities have more in common with churches than they do with factories. But he is willing to allow universities to forego their traditional moral and intellectually broadening roles for the sake of that greater economics and social rationalization that is narrowing function of the churches to...

Author: By Peter M. Shane, | Title: Are Undergraduates Worth the Trouble? | 1/8/1973 | See Source »

According to many rescue missioners, providing that foundation is going to become an overtime job in the next few years. General Manager Arthur Bestvater of Los Angeles' Union Rescue Mission reports a startling drop in the average age of derelicts?from the upper 50s a decade ago to the lower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To the Rescue | 11/20/1972 | See Source »

Even the ragged corps work did not bother the Tbilisians, who were out to welcome their second most famous native son (after Stalin). Though born in Leningrad (in 1904), Balanchine comes from Georgian stock. Among those on hand to greet him was his brother Andrei Balanchivadze, 66, a prominent if...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Homecoming | 10/23/1972 | See Source »

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