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...with an all-too-cultured maid, or just move or stand still with feral ladylikeness. But not till a few corks have popped does she attain full stature. She is never so grand as when lurching, nor so gymnastic as when trapped in telephone cord. She employs her cigarette holder like a wind instrument, makes her gold scarf as vital to the production as several of the actors. She strikes attitudes so embattled that they seem to strike back, and she can dispose herself on a sofa to resemble the whole Laocoon group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Plays in Manhattan, Jan. 30, 1956 | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

...rose by more than 8%, imports soared by 15%. Britain's dollar-and-gold reserves were drained by nearly one quarter to just over $2 billion. One result: West Germany, for the first time in its short history, edged ahead of the sterling bloc as the biggest foreign holder of dollar-and-gold reserves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Cost of High Living | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

Bill Cleary, 1955 Crimson center and holder of the NCAA scoring record, will start at the same position for the Olympic team in its only Boston appearance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Olympians to Play Hockey Team | 1/13/1956 | See Source »

...game, and train harder than they do. Amateur Dave Stephens, 25, a professional milkman, ran away from Hungary's somber Sandor Iharos in a 3-mile exhibition race. His 25-yd. victory in 13:37.6 was no fluke. Only four days before, the "Flying Milkman" beat the holder of five world records- by the same margin in a 5,000-meter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Aussie on the Run | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

Married. Hironoshin ("The Flying Fish of Fujiyama") Furuhashi, 27, Japan's onetime record-breaking long-distance swimmer, holder of the world's 1,500-meter mark (TIME, Aug. 29, 1949); and Keiko Okada, 21; in Tokyo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 26, 1955 | 12/26/1955 | See Source »

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