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"Nobody was good enough for him," cried the landlady bitterly, after the cops labored up the stairs of her sleazy Queens, N.Y. rooming house to view the body of Rodger P. Stewart, 70, dead of natural causes. "Wouldn't let me in his room. He was sitting in there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Old Sport | 12/15/1952 | See Source »

One day last month, as the Christmas season rolled around again, Adrien Claude stopped by the hospital as usual to see his wife. She lay in bed, staring straight ahead. "I am sorry," said the doctor to Adrien. "She does not know you any more." Adrien stared and stared, then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Too Old for Christmas | 12/15/1952 | See Source »

The cold Korean night rang with silence. But in all the dark and unseen hills for unseen miles around lay thousands of hidden armed men, breathing, staring, listening, waiting. Once in a great while, far away in some high ravine, a machine gun pop-pop-pop-pop-pop-popped, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The Sunday Punch | 11/24/1952 | See Source »

Jake Arvey, Stevenson's faithful servant and boss of Cook County, had a more practical rationalization than Steve Mitchell. Said Arvey: "It seems like reactionary Democrats combined with Republicans to beat us." Overlooked fact staring Arvey in the face: all of Stevenson's electoral vote was coming from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Election Night | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

The Man Who Died. Boastful, untruthful, utterly incompetent, Apthorpe dies of fever in a West African hospital. But it is only when he is on his deathbed, "staring at the sun-blinds with his hands empty on the counterpane," that the reader grasps the true nature of Waugh's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: War Revisited | 10/27/1952 | See Source »

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