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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rubber checks cashed on the basis of credit-card identification, Miraglia told police he ran up $10,000 in hotel and travel bills and general high living in the U.S., Canada and Cuba in less than a month. Said Miraglia: "I always wanted to see the world, and I like nice things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH FINANCE: Fun on the Card | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

...wine of the millennium." Said a less historically minded producer: "This will be real saufwein (boozing wine)." The Germans rate wine quality by the degree of sugar content in the grapes before fermentation. By this standard, the predicted sugar content of the 1959 harvest will make German wines, like those of France, the best produced so far in this century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A Votre Sant | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

There are compensations. The picture has been flashily produced in a slather of Eastman Color that often looks like violet shaving cream. It has been smartly directed by Michael (Cyrano de Bergerac) Gordon. And it presents, in the part of Rock's jealous rival, one of the funniest young men in movies today: a sort of Ivy League Dracula named Tony Randall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 19, 1959 | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

...office champions of the 1958-59 season. The idea was obviously to present a sort of world series of sex, but what happened to the sex? When these two magnificent objects go into a clinch, aglow from the sun lamp and agleam with hair lacquer, they look less like creatures of flesh and blood than a couple of 1960 Cadillacs that just happen to be parked in a suggestive position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 19, 1959 | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

Another question is in order. How could a smoothly expert screenwriter like Nunnally Johnson (The Desert Fox, The Three Faces of Eve) have wrung so much carbonated pap out of a skillfully written Romain Gary novel? "Marriage is the last frontier," says Fonda. "Few men face it without remembering what happened to Dr. Livingstone." With that he proposes to an aspiring star (Leslie Caron), whose name he soon writes in the Hollywood sky. They marry, but he is too busy merchandising his wife's soul to give husbandly attention to her body; as their marriage nears its third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Man Who Understood Women | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

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