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...police that Paulo was living off her earnings. Paulo went to a lawyer, who explained that under French law a legally adopted son cannot be disinherited unless he is shown to be of bad moral or criminal character -if indicted as a pimp, Paulo would lose his right to inherit the mammoth Walter fortune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: LAffaire Lacaze | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum will inherit the show Jan. 29. In the exhibition catalogue, the Metropolitan's Albert Ten Eyck Gardner advances a theory on the evolution of Homer's style that might have startled Henry James. Realist though Homer is. says Gardner, he probably got his great inspiration from the same source that sparked the School of Paris: Japanese prints. Homer lived in Paris in 1867, must have been aware of the fashion for things Japanese, which had already led Manet to simplify, sharpen and contract his pictured scenes. Homer inwardly resolved to do the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: REALIZING THE REAL | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

...Georgy Malenkov's double. Luther Adler fitted smoothly into place as Molotov, Oscar Homolka as Khrushchev, E. G. Marshall as Beria. Stalin was harder to cast. After considering Laurence Olivier and José Ferrer, Coe decided on Melvyn Douglas, whom he had admired as Clarence Darrow in Inherit the Wind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Who Is the Brute? | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

...meaning "the Chief says . .." It was the Exepute that carried out the grisly justice of the society against anyone who balked at paying the "taxes" the chiefs whimsically imposed, or against those whom the chiefs merely disliked. For the chiefs, murder was also a lucrative business: by tradition, they inherit "all property of the dead, including wives and children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGERIA: The Chief Says . . . | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

...toss the whole thing into the fire!" Young Jimmy Keefe, the novel's hero, resembles less a blazing youth than a defective flue. His ego is choked with remorse over a botched-up marriage and clogged with vague resentment over the $4,000,000 he will one day inherit from his father, a Connecticut tycoon. In self-imposed California exile, Jimmy measures out his woebegone life in thermos jugfuls of martinis. His chief drinking pals are Fellow Easterners Claire and Blazer Gates, a couple long on charm and short on character. Blazer is Jimmy's old roommate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Blazing & the Beat | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

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