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For one month, delighted Londoners watched the 80 ceremonially dressed Nigerians-some with necklaces of animal teeth, others with feathered straw hats, at least one with a jeweled crown-parade into Lancaster House for their historic conference. Everything possible had been done to make them feel at home. For the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGERIA: A Dream of Utopia | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

Insults & Accusations. Under the great chandeliers of the Lancaster House music room, where Chopin once played for Queen Victoria, the Premiers bickered, shot insults back and forth like poisoned darts. When the conference took up the ticklish problem of how to protect the rights of minorities among Nigeria's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGERIA: A Dream of Utopia | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

One day Ernie took it into his head he wanted to act. His face was as homely as a cold baked potato, but he worked hard around summer theaters, and he got a few bits in television. All of a sudden he was in From Here to Eternity-playing Fatso...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Marty in Hollywood | 9/8/1958 | See Source »

Off at Dawn. The night before, KLM Flight 607E, a two-month-old Super Constellation en route from Amsterdam to New York, had put down at Shannon Airport, and its passengers had trooped into the lounges and duty-free shops to sip Irish coffee, have a last buying spree, scribble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Riders to the Sea | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

For Easy Reference. In Lancaster, Calif., Joshua Hietize Baussloipezkuffbergarzime disclosed in court that he sometimes used the alias Joshua Hietize Baussloipezkuffberg.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 5, 1958 | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

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