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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clearly derived from radio's teary soap operas that its actors scarcely move anything but their lips and larynxes. All this choked-up sadness, punctuated by organ chordings, will make most televiewers feel as though they have been dunked in an emotional bubble bath. Search for Tomorrow dispenses with the synopsis of previous episodes. This adds to the confusion but permits the actors that many more minutes of suffering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The New Shows | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

Died. Maria Montez (christened Maria de Santo Silas), 31, whose burning eyes, heaving bosom and tawny allure energized a long series of sex-and-geography pictures (Gipsy Wildcat, South of Tahiti, Cobra Woman); in her reducing bath (probably of a heart attack brought on by the scalding water); in Paris, where she lived with her second husband, French Actor Jean-Pierre Aumont...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 17, 1951 | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

Neither Griys nor Holworthy are especially attractive halls, but large suites make up for this. In the former what used to be two separate rooms has been combined into one apartment with a private bath for the residents. Holworthy has two suites (living room and two bedrooms) per floor with both occupants sharing the same bath...

Author: By Frank B. Gilbert, | Title: 12 Yard Dorms House '55 | 9/12/1951 | See Source »

Applied to such masterpieces as Hans Memling's painting of Bathsheba leaving her bath, Michelangelo's judgment is harsh and crude. Instead of mixing his colors, Memling laid them on pure and thin in overlapping glazes. As a result, the picture seems to glow from within. Its narrow space recedes dramatically to the tiny figure of King David peeping from his terrace. The severely angular composition contrasts artfully with Bathsheba's soft curves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sparkling Burgundy | 9/3/1951 | See Source »

...Romans." He came to love her so devotedly that he once paid her a supreme compliment: "Why, my dear, you are more like a mistress than a wife." She said of him: "Dizzy has the most wonderful moral courage, but no physical courage. When he has his shower bath, I always have to pull the string...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tory Story | 9/3/1951 | See Source »

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