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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stands comparatively deserted. Boatloads and planeloads of people were arriving in France as they always had, but they were going right on-to Spain, whose low prices are a potent magnet, to Italy, and even to Greece, whose fewer hotels are so full that no newcomers could get a bed. "Foreign tourists pass through France, but they no longer stay," complained Le Parisien Libéré. Conducted tours of "Paris by Night," promising Le Striptease and authentic Apaches, were down to a half of last year's business. Tickets for the Folies-Bèrgere could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: The Summertime Madness | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

...While still in bed, he received an invitation from President Eisenhower to visit the U.S . next December...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: The Flu Spreads | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

...autobiography, For the Life of Me, Richardson bitterly decries the mellowing of newspapers and newsmen over the years. "In my day." he muses, "all reporters were single. They lived in a rooming house near the paper, and they drank themselves to sleep every night and went to bed with their socks on." But now he, too, has reluctantly begun to mellow. "I've lost the hop on my fast one," he said last week, "and I've lost the will to fool 'em with junk any more. I guess, really, I've outgrown this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: City Editor | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

...tell), who get involved with two moth-eaten California Cleopatras. One of them is Billie, who talks exclusively in Southern-fried cliches; the other is Eva, statuesque, free, pagan, and therefore known as "The Greek." The story rambles from a Malibu motel to Acapulco; the characters whinny in bed, cry "Man, it's great!" and engage in minor unimaginative forms of sadism. It is just possible that Author Morris is kidding, but neither the lechers nor the beauty-shop matrons to whom the book is addressed may notice it. At any rate, there is a good deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Aug. 19, 1957 | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

Losing Paula snaps the little coherence remaining in Robert: he knocks Pierre down; he drunkenly invites the shocked Elisabeth to share his bed; he speeds away from Viridis with a gaggle of his Paris friends. Both the Gornacs thank God-Elisabeth for having been freed of "an evil presence," Pierre for having sufficient humility not to resent having been punched. Then, days later, they learn that Robert has been killed in an auto accident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Look of Angels | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

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