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...iron and steel dollars on her Chicago household expenses each year. She read highbrow magazines and struggled to get Bert to like her French dishes (the French novels were beyond him). Alas, he threw her magazines in the fire and, instead of eating, drank. Harriet, "bird of gorgeous plumage strayed into a hen yard," might have had a long, drawn-out struggle to civilize this unworthy man, but she left the fellow some time before he went broke. Instead of being that Victorian emblem, The Woman Alone Against the World. Harriet Hubbard Ayer became one of the first great modern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: To the Last Man | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

...gorgeous turnover?'' cried a happy Tory housewife in Winnipeg. Canada's turn to the right was indeed a spectacular surprise. The secondary significance dawned more slowly. In a breakdown inherent in the parliamentary system, the Canadian voter had balanced his choice so nicely that the country was assured of a minority government. Canada faced the prospect of a temporarily paralyzed domestic and foreign policy, and another election within a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Upset | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

...both survive, and in the moment conventionally occupied by the clinch, the two heroes stand face to face. In a voice charged with emotion, the marshal says: "I just wantcha ta know I'd a never made it withoutcha." And as he drags himself off to join the gorgeous, redheaded heroine (Rhonda Fleming), Actor Lancaster looks like a man who is heading for nothing better than the electric chair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 17, 1957 | 6/17/1957 | See Source »

Wish You Were Here. In Jackson, Miss., the U.S. Weather Bureau reported observing one morning at 11:35 ". . . unquestionably the most beautiful thing in all the heavens ... a magnificent display of iridescent clouds. We saw numerous splotches among the cirrus clouds of gorgeous opalescent rose pinks, emerald greens and turquoise blues. It occurred in a small area about 15 degrees from the sun and lasted only about 15 minutes. It can be fully explained, but only in the language of a meteorologist. However, it can be said that it was only a fragment of a giant halo due to unusually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 22, 1957 | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

...that I wouldn't have to explain to my children - aged 13, 10 and 6 - why that gorgeous gal is sitting beneath the Christmas tree with nothing on but her rhinestones and rabbit fur (presumably Santa Claus caught her minus even those), I tore the page out to show to my husband - who will no doubt need no explanation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 5, 1956 | 11/5/1956 | See Source »

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