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Viewing the permanent marriage crisis in Hollywood, the late Robert Benchley took the position that, like cinematography itself, the whole thing is an illusion; there really are no more divorces among film stars than among dentists, only more publicity. But, faced with never-ending divorce bulletins from Hollywood, puritans are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: Musical Pairs | 5/16/1960 | See Source »

Among all the ceaseless points of competition between the male and female of the species, at least one area of male superiority has long been supposed unchallenged: women are lousy drivers, men are great. Last week that illusion, too, was shattered. In one of the most competitive of U.S. driving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: All We Women Did ... | 4/18/1960 | See Source »

Just when almost all Britain was rejoicing over the impending May marriage of Princess Margaret to a happily suitable commoner, Photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones, the editors of a top British authority on noble genealogy, Debrett's Peerage, came along to spoil the illusion that Tony is just an ordinary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 28, 1960 | 3/28/1960 | See Source »

Now that he had copped another of his country's highest honors, Britain's shaggy-caved Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, 66, newly elected Chancellor of Oxford University (TIME, March 14), perhaps felt that he could let down his eaves a bit and tell on himself. To a wide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 21, 1960 | 3/21/1960 | See Source »

The illusion Author Wilson may have to kill is that he is a born novelist.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Abominable Superman | 3/7/1960 | See Source »

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