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...huge (20 ft.-by-60 ft.) billboard near Times Square to make his plea public. Excerpt from Luck's open letter to Como: "I pray that you will give me the chance to meet you and maybe hear you sing one of my numbers." Easygoing Crooner Como gee-whizzed, promised to give Composer Luck's songs a hearing, maybe a warbling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 23, 1956 | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

These various powerful themes do not always quite gee into one another in the crowded climax, but The Bold and the Brave is nevertheless a successful film of an unusually serious kind. In his direction, Lewis R. Foster has managed to make ideas as well as characters come clear, and when the lines are especially good, his actors tactfully subordinate themselves to what they are saying. Don Taylor and Wendell Corey play neatly in tandem as the cowardly hero and the heroic coward, and France's Nicole Maurey does something rare in dramatic history. She makes a believable human...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 16, 1956 | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

...sufferer remembers the time Gruenther wheeled on him for some minor blooper and snapped: "Ordinarily you're a pretty smart cookie, but this is the god-damnedest foul-up I've ever seen." Said the officer later: "I felt like falling on my knees and blurting, 'Gee, general, that's the nicest thing you've ever said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATO: The Shield | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

...Serkin's eight-year-old son Peter suffers little from such retarded appreciation of music. Recently, after hearing his father and other musicians repeat the last movement of a Mozart concerto at a chamber-music concert as a joyous encore, Peter worriedly asked Serkin: "Gee, Pop, who goofed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 28, 1955 | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

...Oscar. At Edwards, Stapp found himself in command of 2,000 ft. of rail track, the Gee-Whizz (a rocket sled built by Northrop Aircraft, Inc.), a bare barracks that was supposed to serve as a lab, and seven hard-working Northrop employees. His mission: to determine human tolerance to deceleration so that adequate aircraft safety harnesses could be developed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Fastest Man on Earth | 9/12/1955 | See Source »

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