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...papoose is not hers-she was simply baby-sitting for a friend. Next, astonished moviegoers learn that Taylor has not been making very determined passes at the girl when they retire each night to their little hut. After absorbing these whoppers, the audience is prepared for one more anticlimax: Taylor tracks the fleeing Granger and Debra to a hillside cave, but instead of shooting them down, obligingly camps outside all night. By morning he is frozen stiff as an ice cube-even though the weather is apparently so mild that it does not raise a single goose bump on Debra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 5, 1956 | 3/5/1956 | See Source »

After the yellow lights went off and the thunder of the exhausts rolled again it was all anticlimax. But the race churned on. Cal Niday, a daring, one-legged driver, smacked into the northwest retaining wall and spun across the track in an explosion of greasy smoke and flame. (This week he was still fighting for his life in an Indianapolis hospital.) Steadily, Indianapolis' Bob Sweikert, 29, a home-town hero who had never before even finished the 500, climbed toward the lead in his John Zink Special. At 100 miles he was third; by the halfway mark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sudden Death | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

...seen twice on TV; its theme song brays steadily from the nation's jukeboxes; coonskin hats, flintlock muskets and some 100 other Crockett-inspired products flood U.S. stores (TIME, May 23). Now at last, the film has reached movie theaters, but its belated arrival is far from an anticlimax. Technicolor and the wide screen combine to make this classic tale of derring-do bigger and better than ever. The episodic story has been shortened by 40 minutes but not changed: Davy still fights the Creek War, gets elected to Congress, dies gloriously in the Alamo. Newcomer Fess Parker plays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 13, 1955 | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

...Einstein's death. These events were conveniently spaced in weekly intervals and tens of thousands of your readers must have been looking forward to seeing these great men pictured on the cover. To be greeted instead by the true likeness of nuns and fashion designers was surely an anticlimax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 6, 1955 | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

...game was over anyway. Willie Mays's fine shoestring catch, which made it official, was something of an anticlimax. The Dodgers, with the problem of stretching their winning streak finally behind them, could settle down for the long season's scramble for the pennant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Record Makers | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

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