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Perennially best-dressed Mrs. Mono Williams, 57, widow of Utilitycoon Harrison Williams and chief heir to his reported $100 million, opened a flower and fruit stand on the grounds of her 60-acre Long Island estate. Planning to peddle the products of her own gardens and orchards, she saw no good reason why the rich should not grow richer. Said she: "It's not just for fun. I hope the shop will pay for itself. You don't go into business unless you plan to make money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, may 31, 1954 | 5/31/1954 | See Source »

...into the rectangular hole of the screen, but it is a much more entertaining try. The trouble with Danny Kaye as a movie comedian is that his humor is almost too graphic to photograph. Give him the wide-open spaces of a theater stage and like the prairie flower, he keeps growing wilder every hour. But confine him to the camera's cold, Technicolored eye and take away the living audience that gives him his reason for spreeing. and Kaye is not much better than his material - which is generally pretty good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Two Comedians | 4/26/1954 | See Source »

...second part of the formula, the master draft was supplied "I Belive" which stated that for every drop of rain that falls, a flower blooms. Expressing both religious feeling and appreciation, if not understanding of nature's workings, it sold about a million records. To bring this elevated thought into the realm of common understanding, a song was translated from Italian to "From the vine came the grape. From the grape came the wine, From the wine came a dream to a lover," which pretty much rolls into one the kindness of the Almighty, the abundance of nature, and human...

Author: By Edmund H. Harvey, | Title: Softly, With Feeling | 3/25/1954 | See Source »

...anti-intellectual forces of Cambridge have bumbled onto a devise that could sap the will to resist and the fighting edge of Harvard's academic flower. A signal light now stops traffic at the corner of Massachusetts and Holyoke. The calculating city council, which has its own supply of scouts, placed this light at the spot most likely to cause trouble for Harvard. With Hayes-Bickford's emergence as a favorite of young intellectuals taking a leisurely break between rising and lunch time, this corner has been essential for the physical health of Harvard. Dodging the vigilant cabs, cars...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lighting the Way | 3/20/1954 | See Source »

...their model prison camp in Krasno-gorsk, a pleasant, hilly spot with flower gardens and Sunday band concerts, Soviet propagandists assembled a group of potential German apprentices-army generals, Nazi Party officials, and promising young intellectuals. They held especially high hopes for a wiry little Medical Corps orderly named Helmut Gollwitzer, for Gollwitzer looked like just the man to tell pious East Germans that Marxism was simply another brand of 20th century Christianity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pastor in Marxland | 3/15/1954 | See Source »

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