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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...role of the chief thief, and is hilarious in his series of outrageous disguises. The roles of his proteges, the ardent Hector and the morose Gustave, are well entrusted to Lawrence Spector and John Reese. Guy Sorel makes the most of his mainly silent role as the hen-pecked Lord Edgard. David Bauer is properly reserved as the older Dupont-Dufort; and the endomorphic slob the latter sired is highly amusing in the hands of Tom Bosley...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Thieves' Carnival | 7/18/1957 | See Source »

...dollars on her Chicago household expenses each year. She read highbrow magazines and struggled to get Bert to like her French dishes (the French novels were beyond him). Alas, he threw her magazines in the fire and, instead of eating, drank. Harriet, "bird of gorgeous plumage strayed into a hen yard," might have had a long, drawn-out struggle to civilize this unworthy man, but she left the fellow some time before he went broke. Instead of being that Victorian emblem, The Woman Alone Against the World. Harriet Hubbard Ayer became one of the first great modern career women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: To the Last Man | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

...Hussein in Jordan, 22-year-old King Feisal is not yet a force in state decisions.) The old Pasha also visits his Defense Ministry desk, but these days his greatest interest is lavished on the work of the Iraq Development Board, which he watches over like a proud mother hen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAQ: The Pasha | 6/17/1957 | See Source »

...thought I was a joke. They tried to prove I'm crazy. Once they got working on my wife and they almost had her persuaded to commit me to an institution." Opening the desk drawer in his office in the ramshackle city hall 35 miles west of Chicago, hen-shaped Mayor Egan spat into it, slammed it shut. At 58, blue-eyed, poly-chinned Paul Egan is no joke. The magazine Chicago called him "the worst mayor in the world"-but the electorate of industrial Aurora (pop. 57,000) does not seem to agree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CITIES: The People's Choice | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

...want him running only fast enough to win," says Jumbo. "I've seen too many potentially great milers burn themselves out by running fast week after week." Now that he has taught Ron to relax his arms and shoulders, to get the most out of his quick, hen-scratching strike, Jumbo is positive that his protégé, who once ran the mile in 3:59 in California last June, can do it in 3:55 if pressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Loafing Champion | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

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