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...therefore give you this assurance: every legitimate means available to the Federal Government that can be used to sustain that prosperity is being used and will continue to be used as necessary. This Administration believes that we must not and need not tolerate a boom-and-bust America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: For the Common Good | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

...more obscure in the characters of Antony and Caesar. In the case of Antony, played by Brando with an undercurrent of sensual violence, the obscurity is increased by the sole episode which the film adds to the play--a scene in which Antony stares almost mockingly at a bust of Caesar and then seats himself in a chair as though it were a throne. In the case of Caesar, Shakespeare's portrait is curiously ambiguous--on the one hand noble, on the other blustering and vain. Calhern's interpretation emphasizes the latter qualities and even goes beyond them. Ineffectual...

Author: By R. E. Oldenburg, | Title: Julius Caesar | 1/7/1954 | See Source »

...lace cuffs, Christine (né George) Jorgensen, a year after the news broke of the "sex conversion" in Copenhagen, let the world in on two secrets hitherto kept under wraps. The Jorgensen measurements (made by Christine's own tape): height, 5 ft. 6½ in.; weight, 115 Ibs.; bust, 34 in.; waist, 25 in.; hips, 36 in. Christine's favorite man: Sexpert Dr. Alfred C. (Sexual Behavior in the Human Female) Kinsey. Said Christine: "He proved that a lot of things that we think abnormal are really very normal. Dr. Kinsey can't help me or hurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 4, 1954 | 1/4/1954 | See Source »

...rate to anyone who would entrust their money to him, spent a little cash paying off the first installments, and then sat back while the public, its good sense overawed by its desire to be millionaires overnight, magnified his initial pittance into an imposing fund of capital. The inevitable bust left many scars, but apparently it all happened so long ago that people have forgotten what this sort of charlatanism looked like...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Political Investment | 12/11/1953 | See Source »

...cops and by Hungary's Vice Minister for Sport Gustav Sebec. the players were taken to a West End show for their first night in London. The object, said Vice Minister Sebec. was "to improve our English." He chose a revue called Pardon My French, advertised as "A Bust and Belly Epic . . . Girls with Sequins and Girls Without." ' Planned Initiative. Next day the Hungarians formally and proudly introduced their stars: shock-haired Joseph Bozsik, 28, the squad's right halfback, who is a member of the Hungarian Parliament, and Captain Ferenc Puskas. 26, the inside right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Twilight of the Gods | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

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