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...could not have been more than ten years old holding himself at the ready with a rifle as tall as himself. Beside him was a 15-year-old girl with a submachine gun and a forage cap on her head. Grey with the fatigue of four days' ceaseless fighting, almost falling from exhaustion, they solemnly welcomed the foreigners: "We greet you in the name of the Hungarian Freedom Fighters!" Some carried machine-gun ammunition belts slung around their shoulders, and out of almost every pocket and above every inch of belt protruded hand grenades. Their striking resemblance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: The Five Days of Freedom | 11/12/1956 | See Source »

...waspish Gossipist Walter Winchell played Damon to the Pythias of Manhattan Saloonkeeper Sherman Billingsley, had gone pffft, according to Winchell. The rift began, bleated keyhole journalism's grand old man, when ex-Bootlegger-Speakeasier Billingsley, whose flossy Stork Club got much of its floss from Winchell's ceaseless plugs, spatted with Winchell over a pack of cigarettes. The upshot was earthshaking, as Walter wailed last week: "At one time he thought I was a wonderful guy. I haven't been in the Stork in seven or eight weeks. I may go back, but, of course, I might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 27, 1956 | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

...ceaseless fish-eat-fish mood of the reef world ("Most living creatures, including ourselves, live on other creatures," reminds the narrator), there are no more or less evil villains, only keener appetites and larger gullets. Best comic is a baby sea turtle who hungrily attacks the film's true hero, a shy, sensitive octopus many times the turtle's size. The assault only bores the octopus. Secrets ends with a wild battle between the octopus and the movie's most sinister actor, a moray eel. Result: a draw, with the myopic eel's keen sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 30, 1956 | 7/30/1956 | See Source »

...heart of the unhappy land is Edwards Plateau, a sheep-and-cattle-grazing area the size of Maine, in south central Texas. Here, day by day, month by month, through five, six, even ten years, the drought has inexorably tightened its grip until economic survival has become a grim, ceaseless battle for ranchers and businessmen alike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: The Unhappy Land | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

...entertain divine Zenocrate; Apollo, Cynthia, and the ceaseless lamps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Plays in Manhattan, Jan. 30, 1956 | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

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