Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their anxiety to impress, Mao and his minions had made some eye-catching changes in Peking that were sure to evoke oohs and ahs from their hundreds of foreign guests, chief of whom will be Nikita Khrushchev. In the last nine months, the Reds have thrown up a spanking new Peking railroad station, capable of handling 200,000 passengers a day, and they boast that they are erecting enough other buildings to give the capital a total of 398 million sq. ft. of new floor space-more than 14 times that of all the office buildings put up in Manhattan...
...hard-working newsmen, the first commandment of the profession is: get the story. Following this time-honored tradition under the hard eye of a demanding editor, a good reporter or photographer, haunted by the thought of being scooped, will use any trick of brain or brawn that he can devise. When more than 300 reporters and photographers are thrown together to cover one of the biggest stories any of them ever covered, all the tricks piled one on another can produce a near riot. Last week, as the U.S. press covered Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's tour...
When Ferdinand (The Great Impostor) Demara blew into Hollywood three weeks ago for his first movie, The Hypnotic Eye, Producer Charles Bloch and Allied Artists' Pressagent Ted Bonnet were at the airport to meet his plane. One by one, the passengers filed down the ramp-but no Demara. The stewardess said that Ferdinand had indeed been on the New York-Hollywood flight, but he seemed to have disappeared. Just as Producer Bloch turned to walk away, a bulky man dressed like a pilot tapped him on the shoulder: "You looking for a guy named Demara?" "Yes," replied Bloch...
...managed to pass himself as a military surgeon, a psychology professor, a college dean, a cancer researcher, an assistant prison warden and a Trappist monk (TIME, June 29), acting seemed a logical career. But after a few days on the set of The Hypnotic Eye-Demara plays a doctor, plus eight bit parts-he decided that Hollywood was not for him. "The technical adviser hates me. And they are paying me peanuts. There is a huge power vacuum in this place. A smart guy could just walk in and take over." As for The Great Impostor, the movie that Universal...
Philip Marlowe (ABC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Writer Raymond Chandler's durable private eye seems tough enough to survive even the indignities of television. Smoothly done a la Peter Gunn, far-out jazz...