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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London's gastronomic spectrum stands Fortnum & Mason, which specializes in the world's most elegant delicacies; its salesmen wear morning coats, ship such rarities as boar's head in aspic and breast of Scottish grouse to all corners of the globe. At the other end are London's ABC shops, a chain of 164 cheap self-service tearooms. This week the Piccadilly prince is about to marry the tearoom Cinderella. The man who brought Fortnum & Mason and ABC shops together: Canadian-born Willard Garfield Weston, 56, owner of Fortnum & Mason and boss of Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Barnum of Bread | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

...quarter of stars, James Mason, Peter Lorre, Paul Lukas, and Kirk Douglas, take up most of the space in the submarine. But the actors become submerged in the Nautilus' travels and never seem to matter much in the story. Lorre, as the scientist's apprentice, is surpassed in his bid to provide comic relief by a very talented seal named Ezzy. Unhampered by dialogue, the seal, in fact, puts on the film's best performance, Colorful explosion, an occasional good scene with Mason playing the organ in his captain's quarters, and a ludicrous attack on the Nautilus...

Author: By Bruch M. Reeves, | Title: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | 2/10/1955 | See Source »

Conversation (Sat. 8 p.m., NBC). "The Ten Best Novels in the World," discussed by Clifton Fadiman, Bennett Cerf, Jacques Barzun, John Mason Brown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Feb. 7, 1955 | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

Business School Dean Donald K. David retired after 13 years and drew high praise from contemporaries for his active work in the School. Francis M. Rogers, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, also retired to teaching and Mason Hammond, Master of Kirkland House, will become the second Housemaster (John Finley of Eliot was the first) in as many years to announce plans for study abroad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UMass' Upset Victory, No Drinking Rule, Nobel Award to Scientists Highlight Term | 2/2/1955 | See Source »

...Video Theater. Host James Mason looks pained about it, but pluckily mentions Lux; Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Adolphe Menjou smack their lips respectively over Rheingold and Schaefer beers; Jon Hall goes into ecstasies over Jay's potato chips; and Loretta Young apparently keeps a box of Tide on her grand piano. There are only a few holdouts, notably Sid Caesar who sticks strictly to his funny business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Death of the Salesman? | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

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