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... I am a Detroit tool and die maker, and as such have built dies and fixtures for various new military developments. No one asked me to pass moral judgment on these projects. They handed me the blueprints, they ordered the steel, and told me to make a delivery date . . . Now...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 29, 1954 | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

While Archibald's play fails this goal, a gifted actress as Isabel might have attained it. Unfortunately, Jennifer Jones has at this point so little control over the role that she seems to leave it unattended on the stage. In the first act, when Isabel must prove worthy of interest...

Author: By R. E. Oldenburg, | Title: Portrait of a Lady | 11/16/1954 | See Source »

To make the changes he wants, Curtice can also find corner-cutting tricks. When he first saw sketches of a Buick that carried the fender line back into the body for the first time, he did not wait for the year-long process of changing dies. Instead, he devised a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Battle of Detroit | 11/1/1954 | See Source »

THE BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER KWAI, by Pierre Boulle (224 pp.; Vanguard; $3), is a superb, ironical study of a minor British Don Quixote who insists on fighting for code and country-even though it is yesterday's code of yesterday's officers and gentlemen. When Colonel Nicholson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Nov. 1, 1954 | 11/1/1954 | See Source »

Hollywood's Beau Brummell (Stewart Granger) bears little relation to the historical one. George Bryan Brummell was the younger son of Lord North's private secretary. While at Eton he awed a somewhat older Etonian, George Brunswick, for life. Since George happened to be Prince of Wales, Brummell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 18, 1954 | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

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