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Educators have every reason to shudder at the outrageously cynical characterization of the college president. Betty Grable as a shrewd blonde carries most of the acting load. But Sheree North - who looks every bit as good from the south and every other point of the compass - is the major attraction. Though her dumblonde role calls for few lines, Dancer North, in a few blistering numbers, tosses her torso around with the speed and precision of a super-rocket. As Hollywood's newest guided miss. Sheree ought to be very, very popular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 8, 1955 | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

...through town in shorts, with a bunch of daisies in his hand. "It means the chance to play with Casals. Why does [Pianist] Eugene Istomin come year after year? No other reason except to play with Casals. This festival is just the right size-where everything is within the compass of Casals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Six for the Master | 7/18/1955 | See Source »

...aircraft engineering jargon, rho is distance, theta is azimuth, i.e., compass bearing to the transmitting station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Confusion in the Cockpit | 5/30/1955 | See Source »

Died. Hannibal Choate Ford, 77, noted engineer-inventor, who helped the late Elmer Sperry perfect the Gyro-Compass (1911), during and after World War I developed the world's first mechanical control-computer for naval gunfire; of arteriosclerosis; in Kings Point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 21, 1955 | 3/21/1955 | See Source »

...John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln. The story begins with Edwin (Richard Burton) as a boy of eleven already playing the nurse to his father, Junius Brutus Booth (Raymond Massey), a magnificent ruin, mad at least north-northwest and crazy for drink at all points of the compass, as he careers across the wilderness to be Hamlet in mining camps. Richard to the river towns, and Lear to the field mice that scamper in his tousled wits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 7, 1955 | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

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