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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...military reference material; I've filed mine away where I can always get at it. However, it seems to be drawn from the point of view of the German commander because, as any armchair strategist knows, the enemy is shown in red and friendly forces in blue. JOSEPH M. MASSARO Lieutenant, U.S.A. Fort Knox...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 29, 1959 | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

Natural Clown. Shirley is a "fringie" (part-time member) of "The Clan," an exclusive, halfway-out social clique headed by Sinatra and Dean Martin, and she is still frankly delighted by their attentions. "I'm shy and introverted with them, and wondering if I'm doing the right thing," she says. "I wouldn't presume to try to be anything but myself with them." The Clan, in turn, treats her as a sort of mascot. Says Clansman Peter Lawford: "She's a guy, a funny girl, a natural clown." Says Dean Martin: "She's also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: The Ring -a- Ding Girl | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

...calculation behind the talent, enjoy the "natural" comedienne but see the cool planning that makes her tick. They take pleasure in her company, as did the friend who squired her to Santa Anita one afternoon, smug in the knowledge that she had telephoned a gagwriter and announced: "I'm going to the races. Give me ten jokes on racing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: The Ring -a- Ding Girl | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

Nickels & Dimes. For all her clowning and her casualness. Shirley is as serious about money as the Bank of America. She is sure that Producer Wallis is exploiting her, and the idea is galling. ("I'm a very good business woman and I don't like to be hooked.") When Wallis paid her only $15,000 to play in Running, she almost backed out of the picture, refused to show up on the set until the day before shooting began. As Walk's tells it, he is entitled to a profit for taking a chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: The Ring -a- Ding Girl | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

...ruling, ordered the commission to pay Ford employees about $1,000,000 in benefits. Author of the majority opinion was Associate Justice George Edwards, 44, onetime U.A.W. employee (director of education and welfare). To the surprise of Michigan lawyers, Edwards did not disqualify himself, although another associate justice, Thomas M. Kavanagh, state attorney general when the case got into court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Making Striking Cheap | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

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