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What is there in the mental make-up or background of a man with a fine Irish name like Patrick McCarran which compels him to oppose immigration measures like the Watkins bill so resolutely [TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 3, 1953 | 8/3/1953 | See Source »

...pray. Her tea tray was brought in the same as everyday, except for a small bouquet of fresh flowers and a note: "With every possible good wish today and always. From Mac and Smith"-her personal maids. For the moment, the handmaidens ruled the Queen. Her beauty expert applied make-up specially concocted for its versatility in daylight or Abbey shadows, or under TV klieg lights-"a peach-tinted liquid foundation, a touch of red-blue powder rouge . . ." The coronation gown, bejeweled and embroidered white satin, swished softly. On top of it went the crimson parliamentary robe to be worn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Royal Procession | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

...Mary's hope that readers of this biography will find it free of "the animus which, regrettably, is part of the human make-up." The hope, regrettably, is not justified. Every last frailty and intimate secret of Bernarr Macfadden is exposed by Mary and her ghost with such relish that by the time they are through with him, the Father of Physical Culture sounds much more of a human being than he ever did before. Moreover, Bernarr takes on unexpected stature as the modern pioneer of the low-heel shoe, the bed board, enriched flour, sun bathing, brief swimsuits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Life with a Genius | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

Group pictures of past Kirkland actors line the wall of his office. In the middle of every one of them stands the square-set superintendent with wig covering his thick grey hair or smiling through a Tart's make...

Author: By John J. Iselin, | Title: Deacon Superintendent James Yule Will Retire After 24 Years of Duty | 4/7/1953 | See Source »

...Hitchhiker is a knowing job, as harsh and unrelieved as the barren Mexican settings against which it is played. The three main characters are almost the entire cast. Edmond O'Brien and Frank Lovejoy suffer agonizingly as the captives, and William Talman is an effective murderer. Good make-up detail: Actor Talman's deformed right eyelid, like Killer Cook's, which enables him to sleep with one eye constantly, eerily open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 6, 1953 | 4/6/1953 | See Source »

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