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...Mont Blanc, the youngest member of the triumphant Himalayan expedition up K2 in 1954, the fellow who in 1955 spent six days and five nights alone clawing his way up sheer rock and ice to become the only man ever to conquer Mont Blanc's Aiguille du Dru singlehanded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mountain Climbing: Three Days on a Rope | 2/26/1965 | See Source »

...payments come in all sorts of packages. Thunderbird Wine gives a new Ford Thunderbird or the cash equivalent for doing one 20-second spot. Cesar Romero and Alexis Smith quickly snatched for Thunderbirds. Joanne Dru and Sebastian Cabot took the cash. James Mason agreed to plug the wine, but apparently felt that he was not in the Thunderbird class, demanded and got a Rolls-Royce instead. Now Sir Laurence Olivier is all but lined up. He wants not one but two Rolls-Royces, and for his 20 seconds of classical bouquet, he will probably get them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Selling Point | 1/22/1965 | See Source »

Landru. The New Wave, which surf-boarded French Moviemaker Claude Chabrol to fame in Le Beau Serge and Les Cousins, is receding, and the beach is littered with reels of cinematic flotsam. A fair sample is this Chabrol film based on the macabre amours of Henri Desire Lan dru, a French antique dealer, who whiled away World War I by having affairs with 283 women, only 273 of whom survived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Is Killing Women Bad? | 4/26/1963 | See Source »

September Storm (20th Century-Fox) will soon blow over, but while it lasts the public is invited to contemplate-along with Mark Stevens, Joanne Dru, a wicked-looking foam-rubber shark and a fishily familiar search for sunken treasure -a cinematic curiosity: the first 3-D picture Hollywood has released in five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 11/28/1960 | See Source »

Married. Dick Haymes, 40, sometime singing cinemactor (State Fair) and Frances Ann Makris, 21; he for the fifth time (No. 2: Joanne Dru; No. 4: Rita Hay worth), she for the second; in Arlington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 24, 1958 | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

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