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...cameramen were already shooting TV films on five of the lot's 14 stages, while an army of wreckers, carpenters, painters and plasterers exorcised the past for the arrival of the new owners: onetime Bongo Drummer Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y De Acha III, 41, and his round-eyed, henna-crested wife, Comedienne Lucille Ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The New Tycoon | 4/7/1958 | See Source »

Last week the 5O4th, made up mostly of green young conscripts from Paris, was flushing out a rebel detachment near Orleansville. After a quarter-hour's firing they came upon five rebel dead, one of them a European with henna-dyed hair. Something about him looked familiar. When soldiers daubed his hair with black liquid dye, there was no disguising the features of Traitor Henri Maillot, his body riddled by 14 bullets fired by the comrades he had deserted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A Traitor's Death | 6/18/1956 | See Source »

...Donald McDonald) and his father (Burt Lancaster) set their feet on the long way west from Kentucky to Texas. First town they come to, Paw gets himself in trouble with the sheriff and lands in the local stockade, but a bondslave (Dianne Foster), who has mysteriously acquired a henna rinse, sets him free. In gratitude, plainly mixed with motives that make better box office, Burt buys up her indenture with his "Texas money" and takes her along to fry his taters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 26, 1955 | 9/26/1955 | See Source »

...CinemaScope travelogue-this time making a wide-screen tour through Italy. Completely dwarfed by spectacular shots of Venice, Tivoli and Rome is a feeble little plot about a trio of American girls who spend a tedious 102 minutes getting their men: Dorothy McGuire wins Novelist Clifton Webb (wearing a henna rinse); sultry Jean Peters gets a sure-enough Italian, Rossano Brazzi; Maggie McNamara captures Prince Charming in the person of Louis Jourdan. Why any of the six is so set on marrying any of the others is never satisfactorily explained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 31, 1954 | 5/31/1954 | See Source »

...plate was aging, lecherous old Wilful S. Foulfellow, his eyes burning in the apricot sun. He could barely reach the plate. But he managed to lash a whistling bunt to the catcher. When the dust had died down Foulfellow stood on first, Pratt stood on second, and the henna sun stood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Upsets Odds Pulberizes Runcible Poon 23-2 Under Tepid Morbiuezza Sun | 4/30/1949 | See Source »

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