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When she was 24, Arlene Francis Kazanjian, lithe, brunette daughter of an Armenian portrait photographer, auditioned her way into radio as a dog, a cat and a witch-all for one show. After 24 erratic years in show business, ambitious, Massachusetts-born Arlene Francis, now a taffy blonde, is still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Perils of Arlene | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

While the market's erratic performance turned many Wall Streeters bearish, few experts cried doom. Instead, they saw the downtrend as an orderly retreat from early summer's unwarranted high level, which brought the market within a point of the alltime 521.05 peak set last year. The selling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Knee Bends on Wall Street | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

Died. Curzio Malaparte (real name: Kurt Suckert), 59, Italian writer (Kaputt, The Skin), polemical journalist and unorthodox cinema writer-director-producer (Forbidden Christ, called in the U.S. Strange Deception); of lung cancer; in Rome. Born in Tuscany of a German father, Italian mother, Malaparte was called Fascism's "strongest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 29, 1957 | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

The Crimson's passing was notably erratic, enabling the Elis to dominate a game that should have been much closer. Even in the final quarter, when Yale sent in its third string the home team was unable to take control.

Author: By Kenneth Auchincloss, | Title: Crimson Lacrosse Team Overpowered By Eli Squad, 11-5 | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

Lightweight coach Joe Brown's JV's are so erratic that it is very difficult to predict where they will finish. If they are "right," they could achieve the best time of any lightweight boat on the river; if they are off, they could finish almost anywhere.

Author: By James W.B. Benkard, | Title: EARC Sprints Open | 5/17/1957 | See Source »

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