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"Really! How can you define people who spend their Sundays proclaiming themselves republicans and the rest of the week worshiping the Queen of England, who call themselves modest yet always talk about being the torchbearers of civilization ... who keep their hearts in France and their fortunes abroad . . . who say they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Entente Un-Cordiale | 9/26/1955 | See Source »

In a pensive mood at a dude ranch south of Reno, one of the age's most resolute fortune huntresses, Anita Roddy-Eden Manville, 32, ninth wife of burned-out (61) Asbestoscion Tommy Manville, airily counted her blessings. Of Tommy's divorce settlement offer of $260,000 in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 22, 1955 | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

At Rome's Ciampino airport, beaming Cinemactress Linda (The Happy Time) Christian welcomed her No. 1 boy friend, British Cinemactor Edmund (The Student Prince) Purdom, dreamily pinned a flower on his lapel when he flew in from Spain. Both Linda and Purdom are in the toils of divorce, she...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PEOPLE | 8/15/1955 | See Source »

Aim: a Mystery. Actress Maureen Stapleton also stumbled on the hazard of a bad play presented over NBC's Philco Playhouse (Sun. 9:30 p.m., E.D.T.). Incident in July is the poor second best of Novelist-Playwright Calder Willingham, who adapted his own novel, End as a Man, a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 7/25/1955 | See Source »

The Best from Gano. The anniversary dinner (sirloin steak, champagne) was no stuffy testimonial, but a newspaperman's blend of horseplay and affection. Toastmaster Dick Thornburg, editor of the Cincinnati Post, struck the keynote by calling Howard "the greatest newspaperman ever to come out of Gano, Ohio, population 37...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Family Party | 7/18/1955 | See Source »

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