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Pizza on Credit is about a pizza barker (Giacomo Furia) who is possessed by his possessions: a wife (Sophia Loren) much too pretty to be practical, and an emerald ring much too expensive to be trusted to the feckless likes of her. When she loses it, he finds out rather more than he wants to know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 25, 1957 | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

...will boast additional cause for rejoicing among the friends of the Emerald Isle. It marks the 181st anniversary of "Evacuation Day," the departure of the British from Boston under the guns of colonial batteries mounted on Dorchester Heights...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Band Will Defy Weather and Crowd To Lead St. Patrick's Day Parade | 3/17/1956 | See Source »

...discovered the Caribbean island of Jamaica in 1494. This winter 100,000 sun-seeking North American tourists are discovering Jamaica and echoing Columbus. The lush British colony, only three hours by air from Miami, is the Temperate Zone dweller's vision of Eden: white sand beaches and an emerald surf, blue mountains and waterfalls in the distance, a green landscape of palms, banana and sugar cane, splashed with gaudy contrasts of scarlet poinciana blooms, yellow and coral bougainvillaea vines and fragrant orchards of mangoes, limes and tangerines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH WEST INDIES: Island in the Sun | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

...blocked for a mile when 1,000 Russians surrounded Earl Jackson (who alternates as Sportin' Life) and Helen Thigpen (Serena), out for a stroll, with Jackson wearing cowboy boots, an Argentine nutria coat and hat, and custom-made pigskin gloves equipped with four holes through which his six emerald-and-diamond rings glittered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Porgy in Leningrad | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

...that was not moving, along with items of jewelry and leather goods. Among the bargains: a silver tea set that had been on the shelves for more than ten years, cut from $12,500 to $6,000; a gold compact, from $2,375 to $1,500; a diamond-studded emerald brooch, with a stone that was once part of a Turkish sultan's belt buckle, from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Bargains at Tiffany's | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

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