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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make sure that no one was going against his will, Japanese Red Cross officials reminded all repatriates they were "free to choose to live in Japan, in South Korea or in North Korea." But in private interviews, only one 16-year-old girl backed out. After years of feeling unwanted in a-strange land, even those not lulled by Sung's song agreed with Bok Young Kyun, father of four, who said: "The children have no future in Japan and neither have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: No Place Like Home | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...directed turns out to be a sentimental sort of radiation romance, in which the customers are considerately spared any scenes of realistic horror, and are asked instead to accept the movie notion of what is really horrible about the end of the world: boy (Gregory Peck) does not get girl (Ava Gardner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Dec. 28, 1959 | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...this atmosphere, an Australian girl (Gardner) and a U.S. submarine captain (Peck) fall in love. But Greg cannot let himself go with Ava because, even though he knows his wife and kiddies are dead along with everybody else in North America, "I can't accept it." Ava runs off to find consolation with a scientist fellow (Fred Astaire). "I have nobody," she sobs. "I'm afraid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Dec. 28, 1959 | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

Died. Edna Wallace Hopper, about 85, tiny (5 ft., 83 lbs.) turn-of-the-century musical star (The Girl I Left Behind Me, Floradora) who devoted her later years to preserving her youthful looks; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. When age finally forced her to leave the stage in 1920, Edna Hopper underwent a series of face-lifting operations, had a movie made of one of them, which she took on a lecture tour around the country. The lecture, which included a personal demonstration of how to take a bath properly, invariably played to a full house (women only), swelled sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 28, 1959 | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...Limb. In Cologne, Germany, arrested for sitting in a tree in the rain and peeking at a girl through her window, a man explained that he intended to propose to someone but wanted to be sure she was a good housekeeper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 28, 1959 | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

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