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...outburst of whimsy, with gesture to match, veteran Comedian Charlie Chaplin, celebrating his 68th birthday at his Swiss chalet, piped: "When you're 68, you don't want to cut a birthday cake. You want to cut your throat!" Chaplin's devoted wife, Oona O'Neill Chaplin, 31 and soon expecting her sixth child, laughed nervously as Chaplin displayed a frighteningly realistic flash of his old pantomimic genius, faintly tinged with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 29, 1957 | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

After a quiet six-week respite in a cozy Sun Valley chalet (owner: New York's Democratic Governor Averell Harriman), pretty Jeanne Murray Vanderbilt, 33. second wife of Millionaire Horseman Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, 44, won a divorce on the technical ground of "extreme mental cruelty." During the last fortnight of her legalistic Idaho residency, Jeanne and the children of her eleven-year marriage, Heidi, 8, and Alfred Jr., 6, had taken some "out-of-season" skiing lessons and more than one pratfall. Snapped by a Chicago lensman as she headed back to her "home" in New York. Jeanne looked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 31, 1956 | 12/31/1956 | See Source »

Gates, Herrick and McLane all perished when flames swept through their Quebec chalet early Tuesday morning. They had just arrived after an 800 mile drive, for three days skiing...

Author: By Gavin R. W. scott, | Title: Seven Undergraduates Die Over Christmas Holidays | 1/5/1956 | See Source »

Main feature of the U.S. exhibit and hit of the show is the "swimming-pool reactor," a working research reactor set up on the lawn outside the palace. It is housed in a building that looks like a large, windowless Swiss chalet. Inside, from a black ceiling, beams of light slant down. On a red linoleum platform stands the reactor, a pool of crystal-clear water, faintly blue and 21 ft. deep, with control rods reaching into it. At the bottom, enveloped in blue luminescence, are the reacting uranium plates. Visitors can look down with perfect safety, and sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Philosophers' Stone | 8/15/1955 | See Source »

...time was 10 p.m. Coming to No. 5, which is the Rumanian legation, they climbed quietly over a high iron-grille fence. Looming above them in the snowy darkness was the big building presided over by Chargé d'Affaires Emeric Stoffel. To their left, in a chalet-type house near the street, was the chancellery, where lived Aurel Setu, nominally the chauffeur, but actually the secret police boss of the Communist legation. The leader of the masked men rang the bell at the chancellery. "Step inside," he said, when Madame Setu opened the door. They trussed Madame Setu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWITZERLAND: The Siege at No. 5 | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

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