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...sail up the Pearl River to Canton, sneak ashore, knock two or three Red guards on the head, open the door of precisely the right cell, and escape to freedom with the Reds chasing foolishly after them. Displaying scarcely more hesitation than a plump matron deciding between a chocolate eclair and a napoleon, Susan lets her husband -who seems glad to get away - fly back to the States, and chooses Clark as her soul mate. Their final clinch halfway up a mountainside is mercifully dwarfed by a staggeringly beautiful panorama of Hong Kong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 13, 1955 | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

...enthusiasms is Italian food, and her appetite, for such a willowy (5 ft 6 in., 120 Ibs.) creature, is remarkable. One recent evening she ate, in order of their appearance: an antipasto salad, a heavy Mozzarella cheese appetizer, a heaping plate of lasagna, a chocolate eclair, a dish of sherbet, an after-dinner drink of rum, brandy, chocolate and crème de cacao. Still feeling a little hungry, she then ordered another portion of Mozzarella. With the same verve and energy, she keeps the long-distance wires hot to some 60 disk jockeys, as well as to her sister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Girl in the Groove | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

...Epicene, "What's it to me that you have been "In your pursuit of interdicted joys "Seducer of a hundred little boys . . . ? "Tis not for these unsocial acts, not these "I wet my pen! . . . "But oh! your tie is crooked and I see "Too plain you had an eclair for your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cinderella | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

Thus approved, the Cardinal Secretary went to Paris last week, and a reporter of L'Eclair found him surprisingly willing to talk. Not once could the reporter bring the name of Mussolini to the Cardinal's lips, but step by step through the interview the third person masculine referred invariably to the Dictator beyond the Alps. Summarizing recent history, the Cardinal said: "He has replaced the crucifix in the schools; he has returned the buildings which belonged to the Jesuits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Gasparri Speaks Out | 2/8/1926 | See Source »

...Eclair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Janitress | 11/30/1925 | See Source »

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