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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Roberta has more than the un-glamour of middle age. to recommend her-an open, frankly sentimental, strongly appealing style. She makes her entrance chanting Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing in a slightly husky, twangy voice. After the applause dies down, she may take off her glasses, pick up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Middle-Aged Siren | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

The Pru, of course, also knows what odds to expect on its president, who turns out to be the perfect risk. At 58, with a trim 175 Ibs. spread over his 5-ft.-10-in. frame. Shanks is lean and rosily healthy. As insurance pamphlets advise, he likes to get...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INSURANCE: Chip off the Old Rock | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

Straight Life Insurance, the industry's traditional bread-and-butter policy, which provides a lump-sum payment to a policyholder's beneficiaries upon his death-and at a relatively low premium. Another feature is that policyholders can stop paying premiums whenever they choose, get the equity they have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: LIFE INSURANCE: FIVE FORMS | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

Endowment Life, one of the "savings-type" policies designed for people who want life-insurance protection plus a source of income to provide for their old age. A big favorite of unmarried career women and family men who have other insurance, one form of a $10,000 endowment policy pays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: LIFE INSURANCE: FIVE FORMS | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

France & Purity. The ending is, nevertheless, edifying. The cardinal collapses while celebrating Mass, and dies. With his last words he says to Abbé Mas: "Be happy in the Lord." And "in that moment the abbe found his vocation again . . . The old man . . . on whom miracles had long palled had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ribaldry in Rome | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

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