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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...something of Cobb's history. Once again Lee Cobb was on top until a heart attack in 1955. Since then, he has regained his stature as Hollywood's No. 1 sin-ridden heavy. In I, Don Quixote, Actor Cobb, brilliantly backed by Eli Wallach and Colleen Dewhurst, put on a performance that was both poignant and terrifying but never out of control. His deeply felt Don Quixote seemed to overcome the world, as Philosopher Unamuno put it, "by giving [it] cause to laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Victory by Ridicule | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

Some seven or eight years ago, John Ford directed a technicolor opus called The Quiet Man, about a red haired colleen and an ex-boxer come back to the ould sod. Now, as if in atonement for that bit of profitable fakery, Ford has given us The Rising of the Moon, a little trio of flicks full of peat, poteen and artistry...

Author: By Mcdaniel Ofield, | Title: The Rising of the Moon | 10/15/1957 | See Source »

...west of London, rang up Betty Stevens in nearby Maidenhead. "I thought you'd like to know-we have a lovely case of German measles," she said. "Oh, how lovely!" said Mrs. Stevens. "Charles will be delighted. We'll be over next week to catch them." So Colleen Dicks, who had been threatened with cancellation of her ninth birthday party last week because she had German measles, had a party after all. As she blew out the nine candles Colleen presumably sent a virus-laden breath over Guest of Honor Antonia Stevens. Colleen also bestowed infectious kisses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Catch It If You Can | 7/22/1957 | See Source »

...current squad are Minnesotans; three of them seniors. Charles Mohlke is president of the student governing body and majors in English, philosophy and political science; Colleen Nelson majors in zoology and music and is a bird watcher by avocation; Joseph Shechtman is a sociology major and the team expert on everything; Eleanor Vaill is a junior majoring in drama and usually has the answers to questions on quotations from poetry. The team gets together about once a week for an hour or two of practice and, the night of the match, eats at a university training table, where, reportedly they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Twelve Straight | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

Born. To Teresa Brewer, 23, tiny, leather-lunged jukebox songstress (Music! Music! Music!; Till I Waltz Again with You), and Bill Monahan, 27, music publisher: a third daughter, third child; in The Bronx. Name: Megan Colleen. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 8, 1954 | 11/8/1954 | See Source »

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