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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Female on the Beach (Universal). "Come away with me to Los Angeles!" the wealthy widow (Judith Evelyn) implores. Her hands wander idly over the alluring mass of rented muscle that lies sprawled upon her divan. Alas, no cash, no mash. To make ends meet, Jeff Chandler has hired out as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 19, 1955 | 9/19/1955 | See Source »

How Stupid Is the Enemy? The book is full of comic businessmen, who are not only capitalist bloodsuckers, but suckers for the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale. The saddest of them is a tycoon named Henry J. Baxter, who dies hilariously, falling down on the path to his $3,000,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fast & Loose | 9/19/1955 | See Source »

The romance between Artist Morgan and Hildegarde strikes its first snag when he is horrified to discover her posing in the nude for an art class: its second, when Morgan's mother begs Hildegarde not to ruin her son by marrying him. Hildegarde, who has been using Svengali'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 12, 1955 | 9/12/1955 | See Source »

Imaginary, too, are the Phragians whom Stewart uses to illustrate the city's neatly Spenglerian life cycle. Archias arrives with the first settlers as a boy stowaway. Ragged and kinless, he carries on his forehead the scar of a cut made as an identification mark during the sack of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: City That Never Was | 8/29/1955 | See Source »

It was hard to detect with the instruments that existed then, but Libby charged at the problem with his peculiar combination of creative abandon and meticulous care, and soon plucked a great prize. Since carbon 14 is mixed in the atmosphere, it is taken up by living plants, supplying a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Philosophers' Stone | 8/15/1955 | See Source »

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