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Vulnerable Spot. Then something went agley. Dody began basking in her new limelight-and looking as if she expected her laughs. She also started irritating Paar, who has a temperament as tender as a tenor's. She complained on the air that Jack wouldn't let her do the song-and-dance turns she wanted to. Once she pointed to the red light signaling silence for a commercial on Paar's desk and chirped: "Oh, I'm not supposed to talk when that's on, am I?" (Retorted Jack: "Dody, you know I told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Girl That Jack Built | 3/24/1958 | See Source »

...equal slice of Kay Kendall, Gregory Peck, Tennessee Williams and a host of other gold-plated names? For new light on the vast organization that collects these tidy percentages, keeps itself in the dark as much as it keeps its clients in the limelight, and controls much of what the U.S. sees in movies and TV, see BUSINESS, 10% of Everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Mar. 17, 1958 | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

...herself into his family, even helped fix the Christmas turkey. Girard was moaning meek and low: "All I want to do is get me a job, make a good living, be a good husband and just be an average guy. I don't want no part of the limelight ever again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 6, 1958 | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

...Astronautics, launched only three days before to plan the Air Force's space and space-weapons projects, e.g., contramissiles, space satellites, space platforms. The Air Force, charged the Pentagon's Missile Chief William M. Holaday, had "jumped the gun" and had been trying to "grab the limelight and establish a position." Air Force Secretary James H. Douglas admitted that the Directorate of Astronautics had indeed been set up "prematurely" and "contrary to assurances." oint was that the Pentagon intends soon ) set up its own Advanced Research Projects Agency (TIME, Dec. 16) designed both to develop fantasy weapons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Shot Down | 12/23/1957 | See Source »

...scholarly, shunning the limelight, Portugal's Premier Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, 68, defies the accepted definition of dictators; yet he is now the dean of them. His technique is paternal, sometimes even benevolent. He controls police and press, brooks opposition for only 40 days before elections every four years. Yet, even when there is opportunity, few of Portugal's 8,500.000 fill the air above their lovely Latin land with cries for liberty. With a sedulously fostered reputation for financial wizardry, former Economics Professor Salazar has kept Portugal's budget balanced, but at the expense of workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PORTUGAL: Is Everybody Happy? | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

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