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Last week Gilbert Godard was busy spending his insurance money on 1) a new house, 2) a new car, 3) a new lawsuit-against the newspaper Parisien Libéré, which called him "a common crook." As an added symptom of recovery, he stood for a while outside the butcher's shop making rude faces through the window at Maigret, at whom, strangely enough, he was very sore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: It's a Miracle! | 9/29/1952 | See Source »

...embarrassing word would not easily down. Last week, in the heart of "Ad Alley" on Manhattan's Madison Avenue, huge billboards announced the September opening of a new restaurant with "persuasive personality''and an "ultimate Ad Lib Bar." Its name: "The Huckster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Huckster Shuckers | 9/1/1952 | See Source »

...News Conference (Mon. 7 p.m., NBC). Politicians and newsmen in an ad lib discussion of campaign issues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Jul. 14, 1952 | 7/14/1952 | See Source »

Some of the TV newcomers found it hard to overcome their opening-night jitters. Expert Adams fidgeted unhappily, seemed to long for the protective security of radio, hardly ever got into the act. Expert Kieran covered his own nervousness with a fluent flow of ad lib comments (although he once flubbed a quotation from Omar Khayyam). Sportcaster Red Barber, delivering General Electric's commercials, was as edgy as a batter facing the three-and-two pitch. Biggest surprise: James Michener's wide fund of knowledge, e.g., natural history, poetry, mythology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Experts | 7/14/1952 | See Source »

...followed with ad lib comments and then adjourned to Memorial Hall where she drank a beer surrounded by a crowd of admiring freshmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Songstress Mouths Words at Smoker | 3/11/1952 | See Source »

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