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HUNGERFIELD AND OTHER POEMS (115 pp.)-Robinson Jeffers-Random House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Brother to Boulders | 1/25/1954 | See Source »

...Mixed Bag. A random sample of Vice Presidents might include...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE VICE PRESIDENCY: A Bridgebuiider | 1/18/1954 | See Source »

Later, Prince Esterhazy offered a ransom for the skull. Rosenbaum solemnly sent a random substitute which was duly buried with Haydn's bones. The prince never paid the promised ransom, but Rosenbaum had the last laugh, confessed the fraud in pale glee on his deathbed. He passed the relic to a friend, with the request that it be placed eventually in the museum of Vienna's ultra-respectable Society of the Friends of Music. After long delays, the skull reached the museum in 1895, where it rests today in a glass case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Together Again? | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

Arrest after arrest followed in the next few weeks, as the girls accused people at random during their hysterical trances. At first the victims were generally people of eccentric habits--many were not church members and the Puritan community had small sympathy for them. But as the craze spread, no one seemed safe from accusation. Even a minister, the Reverend George Burroughs, a Harvard graduate of the Class of 1670 and the former pastor of the Salem church, was seized. Soon scores of persons were under suspicion and no end was in sight. The matter became the concern...

Author: By Daniel A. Rezneck, | Title: Harvard President Plays Hero Role in Witchcraft Trials | 12/12/1953 | See Source »

...Shilluks cast their ballots at random...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUDAN: Democracy for Dinkas | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

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