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...Dominican Playboy Porfirio Rubirosa and his fifth wife, sometime Cine-minx Odile Rodin. 21, whooped it up at a Manhattan party, a thief invaded their Plaza Hotel suite, made off with jewelry and mink worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 1, 1958 | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

...Moss has thought up a few nice epigrams ("Drosophila are so Mendelian"; "Promiscuity is the thief of time"), and various pleasant conceits. But he has also been fecund in pseudo-epigrams ("A doctor without a disease is like a poet without a passion--a mere strummer"), and little tepid fancies (an inefficient, effeminate angel who receives celestial rebukes from the sound-effects man whenever he says, "Oh, God.") Mr. Moss writes in a tone of unflagging, unconvincing elegance, less Wilde than woolly...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: The Folding Green | 11/26/1958 | See Source »

...Skirt. In Rochester, a thief stole gasoline from Frank Schmid's car by siphoning it off through a disconnected hula hoop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 24, 1958 | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

Glaring Error. In Chitose, Japan, after a thief had removed three of four radar reflectors from the landing strip of a nearby U.S. Air Base and a ground radar man had detected the fourth and last reflector drifting off on his scope, police, summoned by the radarman, found the reflector loaded on the bicycle of Shigeru Takagi, 32, who confessed that he had taken the others, but grumbled that a local pawnshop had paid him only $2.78 apiece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 13, 1958 | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

...thief crook cynic (swimfloatdrifting fragment of heaven) trickstervillain raucous rogue & vivid voltaire you beautiful anarchist (i salute thee dive for dreams or a slogan may topple you (trees are their roots and wind is wind) trust your heart if the seas catch fire (and live by love though the stars walk backwar

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: the latest from e. e. cummings | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

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