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...Sorry. In Tokyo, after 50 persons were killed by arsenic inadvertently mixed in its powdered-milk preparation, the Morinaga Milk Co. expressed its "humblest apologies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 19, 1955 | 9/19/1955 | See Source »

...Orfeo (1607). From the wings issued a flying wedge of furies, shades and demons, screaming insults at the baritone, who made a hurried and unheroic exit. Umberto and his lady rose uncertainly as the audience broke into loud jeers, cheers and whistles. The conductor appeared onstage and stammered, "My humblest apologies, Your Majesties," before he burst into tears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Orpheus in Rages | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

...voiced Khmer, the recorded voice of King Norodom continued: "I announce publicly my intention to abandon power and the throne. I shall go down among my people, living with the humblest, taking nothing with me from the palace ... I designate my parents to succeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMBODIA: The King Steps Down | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

...graveyard of wrecked jeeps, trucks and armored vehicles. Swill and offal clog the canal that cuts through the main shopping center, and along its banks people gather in family clusters to bathe, brush their teeth, defecate or wash clothes. Hideously deformed beggars swarm the approaches to even the humblest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: INDONESIA: NATION IN JEOPARDY | 1/17/1955 | See Source »

...Rainier is a one-armed French intellectual with a two-fisted attitude toward love and war. For 15 years-in Spain, the French air force, the R.A.F., the Maquis-he has been fighting "to defend a civilization which, from the Virgin Mary, Dante, Petrarch and the Troubadors...to the humblest of our movies...has always celebrated the cult of love." Ann is a Hollywood movie star who seems frigid only because the right man has never come along to thaw her out. The emotional storm they generate is so electric that for two days they barely have time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: All for Love | 10/12/1953 | See Source »

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