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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Somewhere inside Herman Wouk there plays a permanent recording of The Little Engine That Could. He has at various times doggedly tackled flying, boxing, aquaplaning, and taught himself to type, play the piano, and do the breast stroke. When Wouk saw Shaw's Don Juan in Hell, he went home in despair: "You worm! You thug!" he raged at himself. "Get out of this business'" But next morning he was still in business, lifting the court-martial sequence out of The Caine. He wrote the whole play in "three horrible weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Wouk Mutiny | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

...Catch a Thief (Paramount). Grace Kelly and Cary Grant are sitting in a a runabout at a secluded spot high above the Technicolored Riviera. Radiant Grace turns to Gary, says: "Do you want a breast or a leg?" Gary locks eyeballs with Grace and after a moment replies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 15, 1955 | 8/15/1955 | See Source »

Forced to change their criticism of Nehru in the light of Moscow's new adulation of him, India's Communist leaders issued 12,000 words of Party Boss Ajoy Ghosh's knotted dialectic. In it, Ghosh beat his breast for having called Nehru a tool of "landlords and monopoly capitalists," praised Nehru's foreign policy and hailed him as a prime mover of "Asian solidarity and closer relations with the Socialist camp." Then hopefully nudging his way toward the inner circle, Ghosh warned Nehru about "pro-British and pro-American imperialists" in his Cabinet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Ghosh | 7/18/1955 | See Source »

Next week in Los Angeles, a modern mecca of breast and buttock fanciers, the County Museum is staging one of the biggest Renoir retrospectives ever held. On show will be top-flight canvases from Renoir's best working years, from 1865 until his death in 1919. Curator Richard Brown has also rounded up a nearly complete set of Renoir's prints, many of his finest drawings, and 18 sculptures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: THE GOOD THINGS OF LIFE | 7/11/1955 | See Source »

Fever Tension. NBC's March of Medicine (sponsored by Smith, Kline & French Laboratories and the American Medical Association) televised the removal of a tumor from a woman's breast. The camera was a straightforward reporter, blinking its impersonal eye at nothing. The sober absence of melodramatics intensified the drama of the operation. The TV audience knew that this was the real thing, taking place at Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, D.C. Viewers were also told that if the tumor proved malignant, the operation would continue with the removal of the unidentified woman's breast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

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