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Most of us . . . went into reserve units that were to be called in case of total war because we felt some sense of responsibility to the country. The completely irresponsible manner in which we have been gobbled up and dumped at random throughout the Western world has deadened that sense of responsibility to a dull ache...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 19, 1952 | 5/19/1952 | See Source »

...only this morning." To Lilian Guest, the money was no more than proper pay for an expert; twice before she had won more than $500 by a special system of picking the teams. But in Bournemouth next day, a nonexpert got equally good results by "just picking them at random." On a bet of $1.50, ex-Teacher Ernest Albert Lumsden, 71, also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMUSEMENTS: How to Have a Flutter | 4/21/1952 | See Source »

INVISIBLE MAN (439 pp.)-Ralph Ellison-Random House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Black & Blue | 4/14/1952 | See Source »

Call from a Stranger. In Montgomery, Ala., James Still was fined $1 and court costs for annoying people by dialing telephone numbers at random "in order to become acquainted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 31, 1952 | 3/31/1952 | See Source »

Jacquetta Hawkes is an archeologist in love with the earth and stone of her native Britain. Out of her studies and her warm prejudice has come an extraordinary book called A Land, tracing the relationship between man and rock. With its publication in the U.S. last week (Random House; $3.75), readers found that the book is also a refreshing document on stone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sermons in Stone | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

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