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...Unholy Three, in which he played both a ven- triloquist and a fiendish old lady. There was a popular gag going around at that time about insects: "Don't step on it; it may be Lon Chaney in disguise!" Chaney regarded the quip as a true com- pliment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 26, 1957 | 8/26/1957 | See Source »

...paid to Dio, the com mittee showed last week, was really peanuts. In 1956 Chicago Labor Racketeer Angelo Inciso was also told to get out of the union. Angelo took $300,000 and his local, is still going strong in Chicago. And only this year Tony Doria himself was bought out by the union with 1) a new Cadillac, 2) $25,000, and 3) promissory notes for $55,000 more. He is now suing for payment of the notes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Sharks | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

...years after the Korean armistice, most of its Western allies were itching to get a chunk of the Red Chinese market and unwilling to agree that trade with Red China should be subject to heavier restrictions than trade with Russia. Only Turkey, of all the 15 nations comprising CHIN-COM (the voluntary committee founded during the Korean war to coordinate a selective embargo on Red China) supported the U.S. insistence that the "China differential" should be maintained. At Bermuda two months ago Prime Minister Harold Macmillan had warned Eisenhower that if the U.S. did not agree to major easements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Battering Ram | 6/10/1957 | See Source »

...After each J.C.S. meeting, an officer and a non-com from a special Pentagon nine-man destruction unit empty the secret wastebaskets into a paper bag. They also tear off the scratch papers on the J.C.S. pads, removing the top three or four sheets which, while they probably have no writing on them, do have impressions from the sharp pencils. All this material is catalogued, put in safes for ten days. Then it is taken to one of the basement incinerators in the Pentagon and burned. The ashes are pulverized into dust-thin particles. Then a destruction statement is signed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Man Behind the Power | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

...giants. He is interviewed at her Long Island mansion for four days and four nights, during which he exasperatingly fails to say a single word to incriminate himself. In fact, he answers all the loaded questions with what the scriptwriter plainly regards as brilliance. Sample question: "What should the com bat officer do in peacetime?" Answer: "Drop dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 4, 1957 | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

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