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Calamity Jane (Warner) is a good picture to come in late on. In that way the moviegoer can hear a little amiable shouting by Doris Day and Howard Keel, soak up some pleasant Technicolor, and leave under the illusion that the yammering chaos of the plot is put in order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 23, 1953 | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

The Wood-Breakers. The faint aura of unworldliness that clings to him, however, is mostly illusion; the Sikorsky imagination may soar, but he is a practical, enduring, even stubborn man. Though his colleagues call him "Uncle Igor" behind his back, nearly all United Aircraft officials call him Mr. Sikorsky to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Uncle Igor & the Chinese Top | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

Finished last June, the painting was the core of an exhibition at Manhattan's Alan Gallery last week. Levine had crammed it with hatpin-sharp caricatures, all bathed in a rich and suitably waxen light. His nervous, flickering brushwork brought every inch of the canvas to life, and created...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Breakthroughs | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

But this is only a temporary illusion, a disguise put on for two days, for the sake of his weekend date. For Sunday night the oxford shirt goes into the laundry, the gray flannels back into the closet, the cordovans are scattered on the floor and the rep tie under...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clothed Nonchalantly For Most Of Week, Student Becomes Fastidious On Weekend | 11/13/1953 | See Source »

In a clear and documented report last week, Doctor Charles W. Mayo, United States delegate to the United Nations, shattered all remnants of the illusion about the decency of the Chinese communists. His speech exposed the Communist "germ warfare" charges by telling how the "confessions" were obtained.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Germ Warfare "Confessions" | 11/5/1953 | See Source »

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