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Standing 6 ft. 2 in., with a clipped British mustache and a clipped British accent, he has the look of a slightly heftier (210 Ibs.) Brian Donlevy. Offering the newsmen cigarettes and lemonade, he urged that no one worry about the deposed President because his good friend (and fellow graduate at Sandhurst) was being retired on a double pension and was leaving for Britain, as "it might be too embarrassing for him to stay here." Why had he fired Mirza? "Somehow or other, people felt that he was as much responsible for the political deterioration as anyone else." Besides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAKISTAN: And Then There Was One | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

...launching into her songs with a driving enthusiasm that shames Dan Dailey, who is busy worrying about his errant showtime son, Donald. O'Connor hoofs and melodizes in his usual manner, but looks like the Soap-Box Derby Winner with a Cadillac when he romances with a healthier and heftier Marilyn. For all her eye and hip rolling, Monroe is unable to project effectively as she did in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. She mouthes through several enticers, including "Heat Wave" and "After You Get What You Want, You Don't Want it Anymore...

Author: By Cliff F. Thompson, | Title: There's No Business Like Show Business | 1/4/1955 | See Source »

...Marcian Dumont, when evidence was all in, "approves of your fine work and says 'bravo.' " Nevertheless, Lucky had broken the law and must pay "a penalty of principle." Somberly the judge pronounced sentence: a fine of 60?. Borne from the courtroom in triumph on the shoulders of heftier companions, Lucky promised to win from the government formal permission to continue her Association Mutuelle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A Bravo for Lucky | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

...rounds per minute, ripped steel helmets at 600 yards and punched through 46 inches of planking at 100 yards. The .280 has a 20-round clip; the .30-cal. U.S. Garand only an 8-round clip. But the .280 has less punch and less range than the heftier Garand or the Russian Tokarev (caliber .299994) rifle-and given the new Garand 20-shot clip, it has no higher a rate of fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Rifle Rivalry | 8/20/1951 | See Source »

...they had put the July issue to bed and were dickering with three groups of hovering angels. They wanted to raise close to $1,000,000. If they get it, they hope to restyle the cramped pages in a larger format, approximately New Yorker size, and put out a heftier, better magazine. But without new money, '48 would not become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: 49? | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

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