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...evening, they offer slightly grander and more empedestaled versions of their time-honored selves; and by now, indeed, Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt are much less actors than roles. Now, once again, they manifest their uniqueness. She provides a heraldic squeal or purr; he drops to a sudden flawless guttural pianissimo; each not merely throws away a line, but throws it, with a double backward flip, over an exiting left shoulder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Nov. 15, 1954 | 11/15/1954 | See Source »

...given General Motors its record share of the auto business* looks as if he just stepped out of a Cadillac ad. His 5 ft. 9 in., 155-Ib. frame is usually clad in flawless blues and greys; at 61, his once brick-red hair and pencil-line mustache are grey, but his bright blue eyes sparkle like a newly polished car, his smile is as broad as a Cadillac grille. His voice is quiet, his manner calm. But under the Curtice hood there throbs a machine with the tireless power of one of his own 260-h.p. engines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Battle of Detroit | 11/1/1954 | See Source »

Sure, everyone says, well why not buy a new one? But did you ever see a cow with thirty square feet of flawless hide? Some of us have, but we know they are few and far between. Maybe one cow in a million could turn the trick, if that. And who would want to leave Cambridge to go out looking for exceptional cows? Who would be emphasized enough to go out and get something to incite Harvard's be emphasized football teams. The answer, of course, is nobody...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Solution to the Drum Problem | 10/15/1954 | See Source »

Those who defied snow and reading lists to attend Sunday's concert found an afternoon of enjoyable though not flawless singing. In selections ranging from Handel to Norman Shapiro, Janct Wheeler revealed a voice of power and often great beauty...

Author: By Robert M. Simon, | Title: Janet Wheeler, soprano | 1/13/1954 | See Source »

...Manhattan, teams from the U.S., Canada, Britain and Ireland wound up the eight-day National Horse Show by jumping for the International Perpetual Challenge Trophy. The Irish won, but not before the men of all teams had been taught a lesson: the only rides of the evening officially judged flawless were turned in by two women. Canada's Shirley Thomas and the U.S.'s Mrs. Carol Durand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Nov. 23, 1953 | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

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