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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Folksy, derrick-sized Sid Williams Richardson, unlike some of his fellow Texas wheeler-dealers, never hunted publicity, often quoted one of his favorite maxims: "You ain't learnin' nothin' when you're talkin'!" His dry, country humor and his ability to translate a complex business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TYCOONS: The Bachelor | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

The Trader. Richardson was born in the East Texas town of Athens in 1891, the seventh son of a farmer and cattle raiser. Encouraged and coached by his father, Sid began trading, at 17 made $3,500 by shrewd cattle dealing. For a year and a half he attended Waco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TYCOONS: The Bachelor | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

In the end, Gable comes to his senses and returns to his former wife, but she has been there all along: bright, funny, trim, feminine, mature, refined Lilli Palmer. If there is a man in the audience over twelve years of age who would not have preferred her from the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 12, 1959 | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

The Devil's Advocate is Monsignor Blaise Meredith, a dry, self-contained English priest whose sense of vocation has been all but choked under the dust of years in Vatican offices. As he sees himself, he is one of God's empty vessels, a decent man barren of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Anatomy of a Saint | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

¶ A glimpse of Marianne Moore, the Muse of Brooklyn, looking for all the world like the Good Fairy in a Walt Disney cartoon.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Peeping Tome | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

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