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Great Expectations. Britain's Director David Lean & colleagues do for Dickens what Laurence Olivier did for Shakespeare (TIME...
Last week, twelve years after Wiley Post had crashed to his death with Will Rogers in Alaska, Bill Odom, now a lean, balding 27, made good. Alone in Penmaker Milton Reynold's Bombshell, he circled the globe between Thursday and Sunday...
...decades, U.S. women had been striving for what fashion writers called the "American Look." This called for a certain litheness, a casual jauntiness, a healthy complexion, broad shoulders and, above all, slim hips. In pursuit of such lean, athletic elegance, women zipped themselves into elastic girdles, consigned themselves mercilessly to seven-day diets, rolling machines, long walks and meditation over calorie charts. At the same time, they luxuriated in what was known as "freedom of movement"; no joke tickled female audiences quite so much as references to corsets and the Victorian practice of lacing...
...little community of Varejoki. The people of Varejoki, struggling desperately to keep alive and to create a new life for themselves, are a strange assortment. There are 50 Finnish farmers-mostly refugees from the northern district of Petsamo, now Russian territory-who live with their 300 children in lean-tos and shacks. There are several score prisoners-mostly short-term smugglers and black marketeers-who live in improvised barracks almost without guards. And there are 35 welcome visitors sent by the American Friends Service Committee from half a dozen countries to help in the building of the community. The visitors...
Great Expectations. Britain's Director David Lean & colleagues do for Dickens what Laurence Olivier did for Shakespeare (TIME...