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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...F.D.R. ambassador at large) approached the titled gamesman with pen and paper in hand, asked for an autograph. While aghast flunkies scurried to his rescue, the Prince obliquely hinted that the royal scrawl is not available to souvenir hunters, cracked: "Well, I know it's an old custom-but you see I don't know how to write," sped off in his Lagonda as Secretary Davis was hustled away. Said she: "The Prince seemed so informal among the ponies and crowds. I thought it would be all right." Said an embassy spokesman: "She has only been here three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, may 5, 1958 | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

...making the gentle art of homicide good clean fun. Once again, in a role he played on Broadway for some 500 performances, Evans decided that he preferred his wife's money to his wife (Rosemary Harris), then saw his plans go agley in a monstrous inversion of his custom-built plot. Brilliantly adapted for TV by its playwright, Frederick Knott, Dial M was a marvel of mobility, leaped from pub to club to living room with movie-like ease, confirmed Producer-Director George Schaefer as a Hitchcockian master of the telltale closeup shot, and provided a triumphant finish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

...Price Class. Plymouth Belvedere, 20.0088 m.p.g.; Plymouth Belvedere, 19.9897; Chevrolet Delray, 20.6441; Ford Fairlane, 19.7775; Ford Custom 6, 20.8870; Chevrolet Bel Air, 18.7284; Chevrolet Impala...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Victory for the Heavies | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

...Medium-Price Class. Oldsmobile 88, 19.2377; De Soto Firedome, 18.9471; Edsel Pacer, 19.2518; Pontiac Super Chief, 18.8017; Edsel Pacer, 19.0052; Mercury Montclair, 18.1621; Buick Special. 16.9445; Dodge Custom Royal 500, 17.8137; Dodge Custom Royal 500, 17.5490; Studebaker President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Victory for the Heavies | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

...buildings. While Le Corbusier is not personally designing the housing, residents complain that his plan results in a built-in caste system, with income groups divided block by block and identified by the color of their water cisterns. Another objection: the plan makes no provision for that old Indian custom of keeping a buffalo around the house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Lightning at Chandigarh | 4/21/1958 | See Source »

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