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...doctor replied: "Not until you down yours. You must play fair, old cock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Poisoner | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

Divorced. John Ireland, 42, actor of screen (All the King's Men), stage (Summer and Smoke) and TV; by Joanne Dru (real name: Joanne Letitia La Cock), 35, brunette cinemactress (Red River, Day of Triumph) ; after 7½ years of marriage, no children (she has three by her marriage to Crooner Dick Haymes); in Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, may 27, 1957 | 5/27/1957 | See Source »

Looking over the show, Sylvania Electric Products Inc. President Don G. Mitchell told U.S. camera fans that they can soon expect even more wonders. Said he: "The camera of the 1960s will use electronics to adjust the lens, cock the shutter and wind the film. You will be able to take motion pictures on magnetic tape and play them back through your television receiver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Picture of Progress | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

...hold no brief for the 1957 car models described in your Feb. 18 Letters column, but on behalf of my fellow citizens of this state, I resent Mrs. McKinley's remarks. The road runner or chaparral cock is a cheerful bird, a curious delight to the traveler, an unassuming and, indeed, pedestrian fellow-the antithesis of the long, loud, brassy products designed for conspicuous consumption by the free-wheeling denizens of the freeways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 11, 1957 | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

...meant, thus increased his renown for honesty, if not discretion. Said Charlie Wilson: "I meant that this particular place is not the place where I can talk best. I was not referring to the White House as such. There was an old Roman senator who said: 'A cock crows best on his own dunghill.' He meant, when he is in his own house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 4, 1957 | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

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