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...Brando completed a seventh, Désirée, a film version of Annemarie Selinko's 1953 bestselling novel, in which he plays Napoleon. Twentieth Century-Fox boldly predicts that it may take in up to $10 million. "Two more like Brando," said one producer, "and television can crawl back in the tube...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Tiger in the Reeds | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

...mile marathon dominated the games. Just 20 minutes after Bannister's victory, England's Jim Peters staggered into the stadium far ahead of the long-distance pack. Suddenly his stride fell apart into an awful, staggering dance. He dropped to his knees and began to crawl up the track...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mile of the Century | 8/16/1954 | See Source »

...some horseback riders in the distance. She began to scream. Grappling with her, the man snarled, "If you ever try that again, I'll kill you." He forced her to open the trunk compartment of the car and ordered her to crawl in. She did. He slammed it shut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: The Surprise | 4/26/1954 | See Source »

...Mans, no matter how much speed a car has, it must also be able to slow down to a crawl for the 90° turns-and do it quickly. Last year Cunningham & Co. saw the British Jaguars snatch victory from them with new disk brakes that withstood the 24-hour pounding without too much "fading," i.e., loss of bite. This week the third racing car in the Cunningham hangar was being fitted with a radical new set of liquid-cooled brakes whose specifications are still secret. This car, a Cunningham-V-12 Ferrari, is entered in the 200-mile President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Millionaire at High Speed | 4/26/1954 | See Source »

...office which in turn stems from another office, and so on, in concentric circles, up to the very ectoplasm, the super-Babitch." What Pierre means by "being no one." i.e., belonging to the City, is what Babitch means by "being." He tries to make Pierre accept the proposition, "I crawl, therefore I am." Against all pressure, Pierre resists, for he knows that to agree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: French Nightmare | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

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