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With Groucho, delivery is almost everything.; An old line of his, "The air is like wine tonight," used to make audiences choke with laughter a couple of decades ago. When he would simply say, "I think I'll go out and get a cold towel," then start for the wings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personality | 12/31/1951 | See Source »

At 76, Churchill was not the man he had been ten years before. His shoulders were rounder; his jowls hung looser beside his bulldog jaws. But his step was still springy, and under his beetling brows his eyes could still smolder and twinkle with their old fire. During the last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: This Last Prize | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

In riposte, Columnist Georges Ravon of the conservative Le Figaro raised his brows and drily observed: "It is very curious . . . that the American warmongers' bombs should be the only ones that react on our umbrellas. The peacemongers of the Little Father of the Peoples can experiment with their atomic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Weather or Not | 7/9/1951 | See Source »

Mamie Thurber has gone on performing. Her husband died in 1939 at the age of 72, but she is still at it, an amazing old lady of 85, with piercing grey eyes under black brows, and none of her staggering faculties impaired. Wolcott Gibbs, of The New Yorker, has written...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Priceless Gift of Laughter | 7/9/1951 | See Source »

With a disregard for sentiment that raised even Hollywood's firmly planted brows, Hedy Lamarr closed the doors of her Beverly Hills house behind her, put its entire contents up for auction. She was leaving not only her screen career, but all its trappings, to begin life anew in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: On the Block | 7/2/1951 | See Source »

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