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Word: directedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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But Touhy was removed from the scene in quite another way. In the summer of 1933, John ("Jake the Barber") Factor, a professional swindler and crony of Capone mobsters, was stopped as he drove away from a roadhouse by seven gunmen in a Duesenberg and two other cars. Twelve days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Death on the Steps | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

On the Beach (Stanley Kramer; United Artists) is a Hollywood vision of the end of the world. It is trumpeted as "the biggest story . . . The single most important film of our time." Last week it had a "Global Premiere," i.e., a simultaneous opening in 17 cities from Melbourne to Moscow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Dec. 28, 1959 | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

Written, produced and directed by Norman Panama and Melvin Frank, who took the writing and production credits for the Broadway show, Li'l Abner boasts an appropriate Dogpatchy plot. After a nationwide survey, Dogpatch is declared "the most unnecessary place in these U.S.," and selected as the site of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Dec. 21, 1959 | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Illustrating the job of the creators, Connor said that his company spent 15 years trying to develop a cure for the rare (800 new cases a year) Addison's disease. In the search it found out, in 1949, how to mass-produce cortisone, today used by millions, and with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DRUGS: The Double Image | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

professional soldiers who have won star-studded reputations in the postwar business world, the out standing example is General Lucius DuBignon Clay, the compact (5 ft. 9 in., 170 tbs.), hard-driving chairman and chief executive of Continental Can Co. West Pointer ('18) Clay, 62, carried out one of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: General of Industry | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

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