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...Your article was good, but why do you suggest that all of the people moved out there to escape the smog and traffic here in Los Angeles? You know darn well that New York City has as much smoke and traffic as we do. And when you wrote of the desert, why didn't you tell about the sand storms and the wind that blows and blows each night, and that terrible heat-like a blowtorch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LETTERS | 8/15/1955 | See Source »

...them . . . My God, it is driving me out of my mind to get that money ... It is too much money lying in the ground ... I don't know no politicians so I have to get out my own way. I want out, and that's the whole darn thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRISONS: The Siege of Cherry Hill | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

...Phillips, who writes radio's Guiding Light, has to be restrained on the TV screen from a tendency toward writing in big courtroom scenes. Says Procter & Gamble's TV Director William Craig: "We hold her down to one or two a year. They're just too darn expensive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: Magnificent Corrosive | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

...family of a widowed vicar (Ralph Richardson) comes home for Christmas. As the clergyman's children deck the halls with boughs of "that darn holly." prickly problems also strew the scene. One daughter (Celia Johnson), who feels it her duty to take care of father, really wants to get married and go to South America with her man (John Gregson). The other daughter (Margaret Leighton), though weary unto drink of her empty London life, refuses to come home and take care of father. She has had a child out of wedlock, and cannot face the "perpetual pretense" of living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Two from Britain | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

Midget Mender. A tiny hand loom for darning socks was put on sale by Selectric Products Co., Lynwood; Calif. Called the "Darn Easy," it consists of a small slide with hooks on its underside, is shuttled back & forth with finger and thumb. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Jan. 11, 1954 | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

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