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Conference. The marriage was something short of idyllic. At the village cafe, Jean was soon telling new friends that Pierre was a stingy old miser and Marie a homely, stupid wench whom he had only married in order to get her farm. Farmer Pierre shook his fist and swore that his son-in-law was a lazy good-for-nothing. "Someday," replied Jean, "I'm going to walk out on you, but before I go, I'm going to burn down your filthy farm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Outsider | 7/20/1953 | See Source »

First Person (Fri. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Rod Steiger in Desert Cafe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Jun. 29, 1953 | 6/29/1953 | See Source »

...Death. Unnerved by the noise, he left without taking any money, but at an all-night restaurant in Spring Valley, Minn., he was more efficient. He shot a waitress, Mrs. Harriet Horsman, 48, and scooped $49 from the till. The cafe owner's wife made the mistake of screaming too. Fred killed her. Then the young couple drove on to Minneapolis to get married. They naively gave the license clerk their correct ages, and were turned down. "But," said Diane primly, "as far as we are concerned, we are legally married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: A Nice Boy | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

...rope. One, a woman of 54, turned out to be Ethel Christie, wife of the man who just vacated the flat. She had been dead for four months. The others proved to be a tall, shapely, Irish girl who worked as a waitress in a cheap truckers' cafe, a young Scottish mother of two, and a convent-educated girl who was six months pregnant when she died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Strangler of Notting Hill | 4/6/1953 | See Source »

...recent happy discovery, that has added 12 Ibs. to her weight: grits & gravy. But most of all Jackie is homesick for Hawaii, her two daughters, and Chinese-Hawaiian husband Barney, a Honolulu fireman. Barney, on a day-on, day-off routine, helps cook the meals, does the washing, takes cafe of the kids. No golfer, Barney is often privileged to caddy for his wife, who outweighs him by 67 Ibs. The original golf widower, Barney maintains that he still wears the plus fours in the family. Jackie happily agrees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mrs. Five-by-Five | 4/6/1953 | See Source »

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