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...love. His clear young voice splashed like April sunlight on the sober stones, on the serious monks, and it put new life in them. They even changed their names to suit his fancy, and soon were quite unconsciously calling each other Brother Door, Brother Bad. Brother Cookie. Brother Ding-Dong. The monks also learned, as people with children generally do, that new lives bring new sorrows with them. One day. when he was five years old. Marcelino saw a woman for the first time, a country wife. She told him that she had a boy the same age as Marcelino...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 26, 1956 | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

Bells Are Ringing, ding dong, all over town. With Judy Holliday and J. J. Shubert in a real money-winner. At, curiously enough, the Shubert...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEEKEND EVENTS | 10/27/1956 | See Source »

...first question is easy enough to answer. The Lowell House Bell-Ringers are a small group of people who like to ring bells. And they have some very nice bells to ring. Their Russian set of zvon--as opposed to carillion or conventional ding-dong--bells consists of seventeen clangers weighing between 22 pounds and 13 tons. Up to now, at 12:30 on Sundays and once every other week before the famed "high table," the bell-ringers have gotten some nicely coordinated noise from their bells in the cloud-cuckoo-land over Lowell House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gung-Ho Din | 4/25/1956 | See Source »

...about the absence of vodka (he thirsted in vain for a Bloody Mary). Colombia's press hailed his expedition with gleeful gibes. Item: a caricature of Rubirosa whiling away his safari time by pinching a beautiful nude Indian maiden. Asked for his slant on honest labor, the Ding Dong Daddy from Santo Domingo yawned languidly: "It's impossible for me to work. I just don't have time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

Russia finally bought some Burmese rice to feed hungry North Vietnamese mouths, but Premier Dong still felt he should make an earnest, nonbellicose bid for trade and reunification with Premier Ngo Dinh Diem's government of rice-rich South Viet Nam. The Communists took a mellifluous line: "Reunification must not be accomplished by pressure or annexation, but by negotiations." Dong has even held out a promise of the right of political dissent for his people. Diem, unimpressed, told his people, "Intensify your efforts in the crusade against Communism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTH VIET NAM: The Quarterback | 10/17/1955 | See Source »

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