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...Tennessee A. & I. State University Club's Mae Faggs, 24, almost ran away with the women's National A.A.U. championships in Philadelphia. She won the 100-meter and 200-meter dashes and ran anchor leg on her club's winning 400-meter relay team. San Francisco's Pamela Kurrell, 17, skimmed the discus 140 ft. 11 in., to break the American record she had set just the day before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Aug. 27, 1956 | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

...into office as Iran's Premier in 1951 on a promise to nationalize the sprawling British-owned Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. He accomplished his purpose in a dervishlike vortex of tantrums, sulks, fainting spells, mopes and well-publicized weeping that made even readers of Lil Abner forget Daisy Mae. In doing so, he brought his country to bankruptcy. At one point in his frenzied career, Mossy succeeded in frightening the Shah clean out of his own country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: After Three Years | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

...president of the International New Thought Alliance. But in Hollywood, where his own Church of Religious Science is located, New Thought has many celebrated friends. Singer Peggy Lee goes to a Religious Science Church in Los Angeles. Liberace, says Bitzer, owes his success to a New Thought tract, and Mae West is interested-"she's an intelligent woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Shine, Shimmer & Scintillate | 7/16/1956 | See Source »

...rainy dawn in May, 1927, Charles Augustus Lindbergh took off for Paris; within the next 40 days Clarence Chamberlin set out for Berlin and Richard Evelyn Byrd took off for the Continent, landing in the French surf. Roosevelt saw Wiley Post and Harold Gatty fly off in the Winnie Mae one June day in 1931, return eight days, 15 hours, 51 minutes later, having set a new round-the-world mark; seven years later Douglas Corrigan roared away for "California," wound up at Baldonnel Airfield, Dublin, and went down in history as "Wrong Way Corrigan." Then five years ago, Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REAL ESTATE: New History for Old | 7/16/1956 | See Source »

Backstage, all was not serene with Old Trouper Mae West and her touring menage of Bikini-diapered musclemen (TIME, May 21). One of Mae's big hunks, Miklos ("Mickey") Hargitay, 32, a likable sort of Hungarian Li'l Abner, renowned in physical-culture circles as Mr. Universe (6 ft. 2 in., 220 Ibs.), had crashingly fallen for Broadway's Daisy-Mae-Westish Actress Jayne (Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?) Mansfield, 23, in full view of the tabloids. A stern theatrical disciplinarian, Sexagenarian West, punishing Mickey for openly airing his romance, demoted him in her show by putting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 18, 1956 | 6/18/1956 | See Source »

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