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...until he spent a two-month leave in Moscow that Colonel Barmitage, lean, monocled chief of intelligence, made the astute decision to have him shadowed. Even then, 28 fulltime shadows and twelve auxiliaries dogged his footsteps for a year before Wraxton was caught red-handed with 185 secrets, a ham roll and the Defense Minister's cigarette case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Callinq Colonel Barmitage | 11/16/1962 | See Source »

...French embassy, where Ambassador and Mme. Hervé Alphand served a magnificent buffet with champagne. Two Kennedy sisters, Pat and Jean, were among the diners at the Douglas Dillons. There was hot crab meat for 26 at the Paul Nitzes, beef stroganoff for 40 at the Angier Biddle Dukes, ham for 30 at the Averell Harrimans. At the most exclusive dinner of all -in the White House family dining room -were the President and Jackie Kennedy; 78-year-old Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth (as Teddy Roosevelt's daughter, her fondness for a certain shade of blue inspired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Capital: Better Than Broadway | 10/5/1962 | See Source »

Metrecal soup in three flavors (cream of tomato, clam chowder, and split pea with ham), each containing in one 8-oz. can a nutritionally complete 225-calorie meal. The soups will sell for about 39? each or $1.17 for a three-pack. > The two-way wrist radio (invented 15 years ago by "Brilliant" and "Diet Smith") has saved Dick Tracy from many a nasty comic-strip scrape. Cartoonist Chester Gould now plans to move the contraption off the drawing board and onto the wrists of Tracy fans everywhere. The radio comes in two pieces-a 9-volt power pack with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Home: New Products | 10/5/1962 | See Source »

...husband from an aggressive jackass. Even the clergy was not immune from attack. After one Baptist preacher denounced him from the pulpit, Saunders discovered and published the fact that the preacher owned the only bawdyhouse in town. Another Independent editorial volley, aimed at an anti-Semitic evangelist named Mordecai Ham, blew down the revivalist's tent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Irreverent Crusader | 10/5/1962 | See Source »

...This ham-and-existentialist Zenwich put together by a young American absurdist named Jack Gelber and first served in an off-Broadway theater, was eagerly gobbed up by sensation-hungry hundreds of let's -go-down-to-the-Villagers. But what was fundamentally wrong with the play remains fundamentally wrong in the film it is not life, it is not art, it is not interesting. Philosophically, it is an uninspired restatement of Waiting for Godot; esthetically, it is just a drop in the Beckett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Ham-&-Existentialism | 10/5/1962 | See Source »

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