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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that Cambridge zoologists were experimenting with carrier pigeons to whose wings they had strapped tiny cameras-to find out whether "a bird of the opposite sex [can] lure the messenger from the straight & narrow beeline for the home loft." Similar experiments were going on among the human species. Ava Gardner and Frank Sinatra were apparently reconciled after their recent spat and took off, cooing, for London. Marilyn Monroe (see CINEMA), on the other hand, was showing clear signs of cooling in her affections for Joe DiMaggio, while Rita Hayworth and Aly Khan definitely called it quits, with Aly settling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: After the Vote | 11/17/1952 | See Source »

...JOHN GARDNER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 10, 1952 | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

...stories he has failed to write. Hemingway used those flashbacks effectively to tell you a little about his writer: 20th Century Fox uses them only to sneak in one colossal scene after another. Thick and fast they come: Gregory Peck by the Seine, Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner at the bullfights and in the Spanish civil war, Gregory Peck and Hildegarde Neff splashing about the Riviera, Gregory Peck, friendly natives, and several hippopotami in an African river. All this is interpolated into a clinical, wince-by-wince history of the progress of Peck's gangrene. By the time things really...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: The Snows of Kilimanjaro | 11/8/1952 | See Source »

Cinemactress Ava Gardner, who has been avoiding the public since her latest spat with husband Frank Sinatra (during which Crooner Sinatra reportedly called in the police to help in getting Ava out of their Palm Springs house), briefly reappeared. Dropping over to the famed handprinted-footprinted pavement in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, Ava delicately planted a sandaled foot in a block of wet cement, thereby establishing herself solidly for posterity as a certified movie queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 3, 1952 | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

Three runners-up in the Miss Radcliffe contest collected pledges for 40 pints of blood in the Union last night to bring the preliminary freshman total to 150 pints. The three solicitors were Pippa Scott, Janet Gardner, and Toni Traugott...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blood Pledges Hit 150 Pints | 10/25/1952 | See Source »

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