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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nobody Outsells G.U.M." [TIME, March 15]: Heaven save us from Communism if for no other reason than what the U.S.S.R. has done to the perfume industry. Imagine Ava Gardner slithering into a room enveloped in "Essence of the U.S. Cavalry." I wonder how "Riveter's Dream" or "Spirit of Capitalist Wall Street" would sell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 12, 1954 | 4/12/1954 | See Source »

Last week, after persuading 1,700 Californians to invest $1,320,000, Bayley, now 53 > finally opened his dream inn, one of the biggest motels (329 bedrooms) in the U.S. At his tile-roofed, Mediterranean-style Hacienda in Fresno, Calif, (pop. 91,669), Bayley has king-size (6 ft. 8 in.) beds, individual room air conditioning. A $1,000,000 "activities center" houses a coffee shop, restaurant, banquet rooms, two bars. One of the Hacienda's two swimming pools has a glass wall so that patrons in a basement bar get an underwater view of the swimmers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Grand Motel | 4/12/1954 | See Source »

...trick has been to get in on the ground floor of a new issue and then unload at double or triple the price to latecomers. The big lure is that there is uranium in the Colorado Plateau, and in some places, lots of it. All the penny plungers dream of the day when their company makes the big strike-and their penny stocks suddenly are worth dollars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH FINANCE: Pennies for Uranium | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

Tired and overwrought, the composer falls asleep one day while administering a piano lesson to a rich man's child. He dreams that his pupil's beautiful mother (Martine Carol) is in love with him, and that he is a famous composer. Waking with a start, he hurries home, jumps into bed and starts to dream again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 5, 1954 | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

From here on, the picture keeps blurring from dream to reality and back again, like the moon in a mist. In his first dream, which takes place around the turn of the century, the composer meets an old man who tells him all about the good old days, back in 1830. In a flash the musician becomes a bugler, off to sound the charge on some sultan's daughter (Gina Lollobrigida) in Algeria. But after lolling awhile with Lollobrigida, he meets the old man again, and is off to 1790 for some wig-nuzzling with a willing aristocrat (Magali...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 5, 1954 | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

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