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...Delhi, India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru spied a familiar face (his own), happily gave the verdict on a wax bust molded by a local sculptress named Viramani: as good as anything he'd ever seen at London's famed Madame Tussaud's. After a minor touch-up job and correction of a faux pas-the plaque at the base of the bust added a year to Nehru's 69-the present from Sculptress Viramani goes on permanent display at his home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 8, 1958 | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

Bird baths & Bikes. On dusty tables and counters in the dark little shops lie Baccarat crystal, Sevres china, slightly used false teeth, kitchen gadgets, books, paintings, precious stones, carpets, birdbaths, old bicycle tires, bottles. A browser once found, between a bust and a bidet, Fragonard's painting, La Chemise Enlevée, and bought it for 20 francs; it is now worth millions of francs. Other lucky buyers uncovered original works sold in their impoverished days by Vlaminck, Cézanne, Utrillo, Modigliani...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Among the Fleas | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

Unrecognized Treasure Sir: Reading your article about the discovery of a Cellini bust by the De Young Museum of San Francisco [TIME, Oct. 61, I felt worse than a bridegroom reading the account of his wedding. At least the bridegroom gets his name mentioned. You omitted the fact that the bust languished in my Mond'art Galler ies, a nameless orphan, until Museum Director Walter Heil came along, gave it a name and parentage: Cosimo de Medici by Benvenuto ellini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 20, 1958 | 10/20/1958 | See Source »

...resources, North Carolina is basically a maze of stamp-sized, undermechanized, undercapitalized farms. Its top crop is tobacco (more than half the U.S. output), which exhausts the soil, brings small profits to the farmer. North Carolina's manufacturing is largely in textiles, a low-wage, boom-or-bust industry. Among the states, North Carolina stood No. i in the number of farm residents (1.4 million), No. 48 in the average weekly earnings of manufacturing workers ($47.88). It was clear to Hodges what North Carolina needed. "We had to get our farmers to diversify, to go into other businesses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: How to Woo New Businesses | 10/20/1958 | See Source »

Hollywood Housewife Anna O'Callaghan Kashfi Brando was burned, burned, burned with her husband. Last week, less than a year after her sudden marriage to Actor Marlon Brando, Anna announced that she and Marlon were bust. Sighed she: "I can no longer take his indifference and his strange way of living." Commented Hollywood Seer Hedda Hopper: "He has a terrific following among members of the Beat Generation. He loves the adulation of a mob. After that, going home to a family must seem humdrum." Thus the handy Beat Generation label, a device more literary than lifelike that has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Down Beatnik | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

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