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...Mercury Theatre to the air and, on October 30th, offered a Mischief Night ad-aptation of "The War of the Worlds" - a sensation when thousands of listen-ers took fright, and flight, from the story of a Martian colonization of America. And in 1941, five days before Welles? 26th birthday, RKO released "Citizen Kane," a sensation that publisher William Randolph Hearst tried to stop because he believed it was a libel on his life. The film, a financial flop when released, is now commonly called the greatest ever made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Mercury, God of Radio | 8/27/2001 | See Source »

...also paraded his protean vocal talents on the drama-tized news show "The March of Time." (TIME magazine, which produced the program, put Welles on its cover the week of his 23rd birthday, predicting he would be no "flash in the Pantheon." The year before, Clare Boothe, soon to marry TIME?s boss Henry Luce, had put up crucial backing for the Mercury?s production of "Julius Caesar.") The story goes that he was hired when the series was airing a piece on the newly-born Dionne quintuplets - Welles played all five babies. He impersonated kings and plutocrats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Mercury, God of Radio | 8/27/2001 | See Source »

...left the country for the first time, I crossed the Atlantic for the first time, I went to Europe for the first time—all to be sexually attacked by a drunken birthday girl in a club (sadly, also for the first time...

Author: By Adam R. Perlman, | Title: POSTCARD FROM WASHINGTON:The View From D.C. | 8/17/2001 | See Source »

Last December Ericsson's top brass threw a 50th-birthday dinner for Marks at the tony Stallmastaregarden restaurant in Stockholm. While thanking his hosts and lauding their partnership, Marks launched into a bold new pitch: What Ericsson really ought to do, he said, was jettison all its mobile-phone operations. The next morning he made a formal proposal. Ten days later, Ericsson agreed to get out of the cell phone-manufacturing business. "It turns out that, increasingly, companies want not just a supplier but someone to run a part of their business for them," says Marks. "The Ericsson deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Tech: You Name It, We'll Make It | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

Gianni Agnelli, patriarch of the family that controls automaker Fiat, is the closest thing Italy has to a king. The press hangs on his every pronouncement, whether it's about politics, soccer or business. When a paparazzo is lucky enough to catch him jumping off a yacht in his birthday suit, as one once did, well, that's news too. When Agnelli needs to tell the Prime Minister something, the P.M., whoever he may be, listens intently. But if Agnelli is the king, then the crown prince is Marco Tronchetti Provera, 53, chairman of Pirelli, the $4.5 billion tire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All In The Families | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

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