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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dream Wife (MGM) is a merry little barbecue of Adam's Rib. When the lights go down, Gary Grant comes up looking shy, eligible and enormously wealthy as a big U.S. importer who has dropped in on a Middle Eastern oil kingdom to make a dicker of some vague sort. While at the Bukistanian court, Importer Grant spots an item he would love to pay duty on: the Khan's sexy daughter, Princess Tarji (Betta St. John...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 17, 1953 | 8/17/1953 | See Source »

...Bruce Alva Gimbel, 39, moved up to the presidency of Gimbel Brothers, Inc., succeeding his father, Bernard Feustman Gimbel, 68, who became chairman of the board. The third-generation Gimbel to be president since great-grandfather Adam Gimbel opened his Palace of Trade in Vincennes, Ind. 111 years ago, Bruce Gimbel started learning the business after graduation from Yale, has been vice president of Saks Fifth Avenue (a Gimbel subsidiary) since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Changes of the Week, Jun. 1, 1953 | 6/1/1953 | See Source »

...still to be found in the atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn, slowly combined into larger and larger organic (carbon-containing) molecules, according to the hypothesis. At last one molecule, a complex protein, showed the ability to absorb other molecules and create replicas of itself out of their material. This "Adam molecule" was the first life; it could grow and reproduce itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Semi-Creation | 5/25/1953 | See Source »

...some Manxmen believe. According to Zoologist Frederick Zeuner of London, they are genetic freaks: "mutations with a tailless characteristic apparently linked with high-leggedness." The type probably originated when one tailless, mutant tomcat managed to impress his character on a large number of descendants. The name of this Adam torn is not known, or even whether he operated in the Isle of Man, but ever since his time, cat breeders interested in taillessness have been frustrated by the capriciousness of his divergent genes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rumples & Stumpies | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

...general. It is evident that those who replied to your article in a derisory manner . . . are oblivious of the fact that all laws are based upon man's basic nature. The nature each one of us possesses today is the very same nature possessed by the first man-Adam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 20, 1953 | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

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