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Word: call (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the country safely confided to hands he could trust, Strongman Sarit announced that he will journey to the U.S. this month for 1) examination and treatment of his liver at Washington's Walter Reed Hospital, and 2) a call on President Eisenhower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THAILAND: Trusted Hands | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

...Teichiku Record Co. planned to bring out a disk entitled In the Rain at Amagi ("In the drizzling darkness of Amagi/Searchers call for the vanished two"), with a companion tune on the other side called Two Stars Over Amagi ("0 sad, the two lovers gone/Before the spring came") but, disturbed by accusations of "bad taste," decided against releasing the record. The Shin-Toho film studio has announced it has started production of a movie, Suicide on Mount Amagi, the story of the two young college students, with the first screening scheduled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Death on the Mountain | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

...parts of the cast together and removed the turnbuckle. To make doubly sure of holding the shape, they affixed a curved iron bar to serve as a flying buttress on the right side. By this time they were about ready for a tricky piece of surgery they call "fishing through the ice." Last week they interrupted Margie's eighth-grade studies (a New York City schoolteacher keeps children in the hospital plugging at their work), used an instrument like poultry shears to cut a rectangular hole in the back of the cast, over the spot where the curve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Role of the Turtle | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

...Buck Jones, who used it to stable their horses-is the largest piece of underdeveloped real estate in a city that is rapidly running out of space. Quietly for the past year, Fox has been drawing up plans to exploit the plot. Architect Welton Becket's models call for Fox to shrink its moviemaking operations into 79 acres on the southwest part of the property, build a $15 million structure to house all its offices and indoor stages. (For outdoor shooting, Fox has a 2,300-acre ranch, 25 miles away in the Malibu district.) Fox will continue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REAL ESTATE: 20th Century City | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

Without Water Wings. Says James ("I got over my inferiority complex") Jones of Some Came Running: "I'm fully satisfied, but I hesitate to call it great, on grounds of immodesty." Actually almost all of it is as silly as its plot. The book is one vast notions counter of half-fashioned ideas on life, love and literature. Its central proposition is the trite one that no one can swim in the sea of life without the water wings of illusion. At its best, Some Came Running does reflect the cultural claustrophobia of small-town life and the personality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Life Is a Four-Letter Word | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

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