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...larger house in our village in Yemen," she said, "but this one [and she pointed to a tin hut, empty except for a stack of blankets, a little stove and a big pot] is better. Rain makes more noise on the roof, but it doesn't come in. It's true we don't eat so much meat as we did, but there are other things I never dreamed of. Look at that little pipe by the road there. Water comes if you turn the top piece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: The Ingathering | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

...latest undergraduate seizure: the Dirty Shirt Club. The idea is simple. Each club member puts up $10, takes turns at wearing the same unwashed pink cotton shirt for a day at a time. The man wearing the shirt the day it falls apart wins the pot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Lux et Tunica Sordida? | 2/26/1951 | See Source »

...Melting Pot. In West Palm Beach, Fla., Jack Jackson asked the court's permission to change his name back to Narcisco Saccomani...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 19, 1951 | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

...ended a long stay at the Savoy last weekend, and Spanier's is a difficult act to follow. But the Spanier band was good because its members play well together, with well-integrated styles. Kaminsky seems to be a victim of the New York Condon's-Nick's melting pot of cacophony--where musicians of totally different schools of dixieland drift together for too brief a time to achieve the cohesiveness of harmony that makes for a great combination...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jazz | 2/7/1951 | See Source »

June 15, 1940-4 p.m. France had fallen. Down the main street of a country town staggered a drunken rout of French soldiery, bawling the self-disgust of their nation in a savagely gross song. "Tant qu'il y aura de la merde dans le pot," it went, "ça puera dans la chambre" (When the pot's full, no wonder the room stinks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: From the Abyss | 2/5/1951 | See Source »

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