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...includes not only this spectacle of a character in the making, but some really rare Vincent Price. His hulking form minces about as he plays a repellent playboy and he does very well by his part. Posturing, he simpers to the tough detective by way of explaining an erratic alibi, "I'm the unconventional type...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: Laura | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

...boiled beef and bread. "This is as good a time as any to follow the diet my doctor recommended," he said. And from a pretty quarter, he got a pretrial assist. Cinemactress Alida Valli, a onetime sojourner in Hollywood (The Third Man), announced what she considered to be an alibi for Piero. Two days before Wilma Montesi's body was found, she said, Piero had been with her, Alida, and then had gone home with a bad cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Action at Last | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

...dropped Wilson, returned early to carouse with friends. "You've got a fast horse and a long loop, sheriff," said Tom Holland, "but you've got the wrong man this time." There were no other suspects in sight, but several trial witnesses supported Holland's alibi. Last week came the jury's verdict: not guilty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Geiger-Counter Murder | 9/6/1954 | See Source »

...Alibi. In Coral Gables, Fla., when Beverly Talley identified Robert G. Tardif as the man who was peeping in her windows, Tardif indignantly retorted: "She couldn't identify me. She was in the closet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 2, 1954 | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

...listless workers, of idle and broken machinery, of incoherent direction, demanded action in Moscow. One day last month Pravda's lead article criticized the slowness of the Kazakhstan sowing and warned that the authorities on the scene would not be allowed to hide behind poor weather as an alibi. Nikita Khrushchev himself found it necessary to rush east to meet with the Kazakh Communist Party and discuss "at length" the problems of the virgin lands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Trishka's Coat | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

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