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...gorgeous and traditional geisha, can't hope to land Minoru, the weakling son of a count. The girl who successfully bucks Ko-ume is rich, intelligent, beautiful, and a nobleman's daughter besides. Ko-ume naturally does the natural thing: she hops off a cliff. Ko-ume's brother Takeo is something else, a young peasant back from the infantry whose earthiness envelops the count's liberal daughter before he's halfway through repairing her shattered greenhouse. These two are the new Japan, ready to start from scratch on a small farm, cool to both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Made in Japan | 8/4/1952 | See Source »

...Each time King Kong is revived [TIME, July 14], more of the picture is cut. Not since 1933 have audiences seen the scene on the cliff in which Kong sits to examine his prize (Fay Wray) and tears off part of her dress ... Is this scene in the 1952 revival or does bluenose prudery win another round...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 28, 1952 | 7/28/1952 | See Source »

Robertson has been stabbed, shot five times, beaten up twice, and almost drowned after a jump from a 70-ft. cliff, he, Lydia, and the emerging republic manage to survive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 16, 1952 | 6/16/1952 | See Source »

...Motes's competitors in street preaching; another is Onnie Jay Holy, whose religious interest runs mainly to the collection plate. Motes's career comes to a gruesome end when he deliberately blinds himself because a mean-spirited cop has pushed his unlicensed Essex over a cliff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Southern Dissonance | 6/9/1952 | See Source »

Concertmaster Charles D. Lemmond, Jr., '52 and 'Cliff captain Del Gilmore '53 will exchange greetings. WHRB is installing a public address system for the ceremonies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Schneiders Date Chorus Gals In Sunday Softball Slugfest | 5/15/1952 | See Source »

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