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Sinner in Our Midst. In Fort Worth, while the Rev. Arizona Brisco, assistant pastor of the Rising Star Baptist Church, was waist-deep in the crowded baptismal pool, a thief made off with his trousers, wallet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 29, 1953 | 6/29/1953 | See Source »

Professional Advice. In Sacramento, a stranger joined Robert L. Bowen in a bar, warned him against carrying his wallet in his hip pocket, demonstrated how easily it could be stolen, a few drinks later, disappeared with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 18, 1953 | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

When jaded appetite and flat wallet demand food that is at once exotic and inexpensive, the answer is Chinatown. From plush oriental trappings, reminiscent of a tong-war movie, to a chrome and linoleum decor, Chinese restaurants provide all setting for your meal. Prices are standard, staggered between $1.50 and two dollars, and the menus vary little between the different places...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: Sauce for the Coolie | 5/7/1953 | See Source »

Eternal Spirit. For last week's show, Old Dada-Daddy Marcel Duchamp had hung some of Dada's best humor and bitterest protest. There was a carved wooden head festooned with watchworks, metric rule and alligator wallet, a sickly pink portrait of a man with blotched face and four combs for hair, a gutter collage of torn ticket stubs, discarded buttons, hairpins and old newspapers. A phonograph beeped out Dada sounds, a metronome with a staring eye pasted to the blade ticked away methodically, and every visitor had to pass Marcel Duchamp's own contribution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Dadadadada | 4/27/1953 | See Source »

Ambulance Chasers. In Tulsa, James Parker told police that after he was struck down by an automobile, two helpful spectators accompanied him to the hospital, made sure he was comfortable, left with his wallet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 27, 1953 | 4/27/1953 | See Source »

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