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...intended victim, Grace Kelly is not required to do much more than look beautiful and vulnerable, and she accomplishes both with patrician distinction. The fun of Dial M lies in its duel of wits, and audiences may relish seeing Milland mowed down by superior intelligence rather than by a sawed-off shotgun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 24, 1954 | 5/24/1954 | See Source »

...tomorrow's conditions are poor on Lake Mendota, the race can be run a mile away on the lee shore of Lake Monona, one of three lakes which surround Madison. Every effort, however, will be made to hold the duel on the regular course which runs eastward along the University shoreline, past the Boat House and Fraternity-Sorority Row, and affords spectators an excellent view...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Suffled Heavy Crew Flies West For First Regatta at Wisconsin | 5/21/1954 | See Source »

...Stoico's 360-feet home run with one man on base in the fourth inning yesterday broke up a tight pitching duel at Braves Field and gave Boston University a well-earned 3 to 1 victory over the varsity...

Author: By Bernard M. Gwertzman, | Title: Stoico's Home Run Defeats Varsity Nine, 3-1, Yesterday | 4/15/1954 | See Source »

Born. To Audie Murphy, 29, most decorated soldier of World War II, now a Hollywood cowboy (Duel at Silver Creek), and his second wife, Pamela Archer Murphy, 31: their second child, second son; in Hollywood. Name: James Shannon. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 5, 1954 | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

...length from the Woodvale Farm's favored (2-1) Goyamo, Eddie Arcaro up. ¶ In Manhattan, FBI-Men Horace Ash-enfelter, holder of the world indoor two-mile record, and Fred Wilt, who helped him set it (TIME, Feb. 22), hooked up in a two-mile duel in the final indoor track meet of the season. For the first time in 16 indoor tries against Wilt, Ashenfelter won. Time: 8:58.5, eight seconds off his record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Mar. 29, 1954 | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

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