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Into the youngest class of the Waterloo tontine went the children of Samuel Car boy and George Grace, two partners whose business marriage has ended in divorce owing to incompatibility. Alongside these wealthy kids, the daughter of Carboy's groom, Nell Groody, also joins. Then Author Costain relentlessly chronicles the lives of these participants, down to the tonteeniest detail. Carboy's daughter works her way through a series of polite flirtations (not a bedroom scene in 930 pages) from baronet's wife to duchess, while Grace's son parlays a naval career into a knighthood. After...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Sep. 26, 1955 | 9/26/1955 | See Source »

...fears, Tom finds himself worrying less about becoming a corporate flunky. He even nerves himself to tell Hopkins that he has "serious doubts" about Hopkins' proposed version of the mental-health speech. Far from firing him for his candor, Hopkins respects Tom's honesty and starts to groom him as a top executive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Slipped Disk | 7/18/1955 | See Source »

...electronic stethoscope, many times more sensitive than the ordinary acoustical type, has been developed by the Medical College of the State of South Carolina's Dr. Dale Groom and General Motors' famed Inventor-Consultant Charles F. Kettering. With it, the most minute heart sounds may be "watched" and converted into light waves on a TV screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Jun. 6, 1955 | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

...married Laurette Kilborn, a redheaded model from Flushing, L.I. After their wedding, in Alexandria, Va., Rubinstein gave a lavish reception at Washington's Shoreham Hotel, inviting 150 eminent friends. Nine ambassadors and a murmuration of Senators and Congressmen dutifully turned up to toast the bride and groom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Scoundrel | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

...Violent Men (Columbia) has more than its share of brutality: fires, murders, fist fights, stampedes. This time Eddie is a crippled, scheming cattle baron, the husband of beautiful, scheming Barbara Stanwyck. They have a sweet, innocent daughter (Dianne Foster) who would like to play bridle & groom with an upstanding horseman (Glenn Ford). But what will daddy say? Nothing much, since empire-mad Robinson is so dumb he doesn't even know that his wife has been inspecting the hay at close quarters with his brother (Brian Keith). Relatively unscratched at the end are Good Guy Ford and Starlet Foster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Little Caesar's Busy Days | 1/24/1955 | See Source »

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