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...fraternity. Some 2,500 adherents joined the cause, but somehow the concierges of Paris still glared as fiercely as ever, telephone operators continued to insult callers, and the prostitutes on the Champs-Elysées went right on spitting "Papa" at anyone over 20 who rejected their blandishments. "Ah, well," murmured Psychologist Ranville, "perhaps we'll create a new spirit in the younger generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Vive l' Amabilit | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

...Queen Mary. Collis wants to be a writer. Dickson expects to get a teaching job. But one Trinidadian, known simply as Strange Man, scoffs at education as a "rope they givin' you to hang yuhself wid." His own reason for emigrating is simple: "Well, 'tis simply because ah little tired. Ah sick, bored." London, for these island innocents, becomes the arena of a bitter struggle for survival. They face race discrimination, a housing shortage, a shortage of jobs. Before long, the air is heavy with bitterness. Says one Jamaican: "If ever there's any fightin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Half World | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

Married. Mohammed AH. 46. Prime Minister of Pakistan: and Aliya Saadi, 28. Ali's former social secretary; he for the second time, she for the first; in Beirut, Lebanon. Still married to Hamida, mother of his two sons, Ali took his second wife under Moslem law. which permits a man to have four wives at a time if they are treated "with justice and equity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 18, 1955 | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

...Flowers," Johnny Desmond finds himself up against the words, "and let me cry." He sings them like this: "Hun-n-nd Elogt ma-hovcra-high." The well known words. "Why, oh why do I love Paris" are handled by a rising chantrense in this manner, "Wha aw wha ah luv Parise...

Author: By Edmond B. Harvey, | Title: Wake Up and Listen | 3/30/1955 | See Source »

...Rome, by Playwright Robert Sherwood, is an amiable bit of pig Latin. Esther is cast as Amytis, betrothed of Fabius Cunctator (George Sanders), the Roman dictator, in 216 B.C. But Esther is bored. Then all at once Hannibal (Howard Keel) crushes the Roman legions and marches on the city. "Ah," cries Esther, "wotta day!" She sneaks out to meet the enemy on her own terms. Hannibal orders her put to death. Esther takes off her cloak. He orders her put to bed. The tactical problems she presents are so engrossing that Hannibal forgets all about his warlike intentions. Rome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 7, 1955 | 3/7/1955 | See Source »

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