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A postal worker's widow, and now a charwoman on Chicago's North Side, Agnes Jones had to watch every penny. So she was delighted by a neighbor's suggestion that a dental laboratory down the block could make her a set of false teeth more cheaply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: False Impressions | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

Papa Married a Mormon is a mock bucolic western in the vein of an Agnes de Mille ballet scored for six guns. It is rarely convincing, but frequently amusing, and few readers will want to revoke the "poetic license" Author Fitzgerald claims in salting the tales of his kith and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mock-Bucolic Western | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

BARE FEET IN THE PALACE (370 pp.) -Agnes Newton Keith-Little, Brown ($5).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Asian Friends | 11/21/1955 | See Source »

But Agnes Keith is a serious woman. The wife of a forestry expert working in the islands, she hopped perilously through the mountains by plane to talk to resettled Huk rebels, ventured into areas where two U.S. professors had recently been murdered because they inadvertently offended Ifuagao tribesmen, watched appalled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Asian Friends | 11/21/1955 | See Source »

Like corn like picture. The charm of the play was in its note, however falsetto, of meadowy romp and dooryard homeliness. But the demand of the giant screen is for size and spectacle. The figure of Laurie, far away and touching as she sings Out of My Dreams ("and into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 24, 1955 | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

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