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Dark, dramatic, with deep-set eyes burning in a gaunt face, at 53 Malraux has the looks proper to a hero, the talk proper to a genius. His ideas gush out in a torrent that overwhelms friends. His talk ranges from obscure Japanese painters to customs of American Indians, from Swiss primitives to Buddhist philosophers. He has argued Communism with Trotsky Hinduism with Nehru. In his dazzling transitions and far-flung references, he is a conversational wonder of the world made the more difficult to follow by his nervous facial tics and a constant snuffling into his hand caused...
...heard good news last week from the jungle interior. Near the spot where the Madeira River flows into the Amazon, oil hunters brought in a high-grade gusher, the first oil ever found in Brazil outside the coastal state of Bahia. The oil spurted 150 feet, and made Brazilians gush just as effusively. Said Rio's Correio da Manhá: "Glad tidings! The greatest hope for Brazil's recovery...
...discovered behind a soda fountain or at a drive-in. She is a star who was never a starlet, who never worked up from B pictures, never posed for cheesecake, was never elected, with a pressagent's help, Miss Antiaircraft Battery C. She did not gush or twitter or desperately pull wires for a chance to get in the movies. Twice she turned down good Hollywood contracts. When she finally signed on the line, she forced mighty M-G-M itself to grant her special terms...
...were as different as Scotch and Burgundy. Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) was a gentleman genius who practically invented the historical novel, and wrote out of rich learning in Scotland's romantic past; Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) was a brilliant upstart who wrote with "the overflow of a gush of personality," and used the help of educated men to do the research for many of his best stories. Scott was lamed by a child hood attack of polio and was ill for much of his life; Dumas was in overpowering good health and spirits all his days. But both...
...experimental XF2-YI Sea Dart (TIME, Feb. 16, 1953) across San Diego Bay on its retractable "hydro-skis." The jet seaplane took off, circled the bay, screamed in for a 400-m.p.h. pass at the shore. Suddenly, 300 ft. above the water, the Sea Dart fell apart in a gush of flame and a shower of metal fragments. Pilot Richbourg lived only two minutes after rescuers pulled him from...