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Southern California, with its pagoda cinemas and eateries shaped like bulldogs, has long been noted for the world's largest crop of chicken-wire-and-stucco monstrosities. This month HOUSE & HOME notes a new regional aberration and gives it a name: Googie. Its archetypical example, says HOUSE & HOME, is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Googie | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

But true it was, and gradually the realization settled on Britain's capital. Silence, broken only by the subdued march of traffic and the dismal tolling of church bells, took over. Union Jacks fluttered to half-staff. Shops and factories all over the nation closed down. The BBC canceled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Elizabeth II | 2/18/1952 | See Source »

The 16-story Cathay building, Singapore's only skyscraper, is aglow nightly with a Broadway-style electrically lighted advertisement of Esther Williams in The Duchess of Idaho. Less ornate cinemas run serial thrillers (the kind shown for U.S. kids on Saturday mornings), with all twelve episodes run together in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MALAYA: Boom & Terror | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

Festooned with colored lights and filled with little tables & chairs, the ordinarily bare parade ground of Port-au-Prince's broad Champs-de-Mars wore the air of a fête champêtre. While bands blared meringues through the soft tropical night, 15,000 happy Haitians downed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAITI: Picnic Campaign | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

M.P. Tom O'Brien complained: "We are not making enough films this year to keep open one quarter of our cinemas and the prospects . . . next year are worse . . . That is a ghastly fact."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: Rank's Retreat | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

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