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In the naughty old Paris of the turn of the century, Maxim's was a wicked wonderland. Girls with velvet names like Lolo, Dodo, Cloclo and Froufrou lolled there hoping to meet a king, a count, even a pretender, and were celebrated by Franz Lehar in his Merry Widow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Manners: School for Wives | 3/29/1963 | See Source »

For eight days the Communists had led the Venezuelan and U.S. navies a merry chase, ducking south to Brazil when everyone thought they were headed north to Cuba, ignoring U.S. Navy orders to turn back when they were spotted by search planes, finally scooting into Brazilian waters when pursuing destroyers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Hijackers Ashore | 3/1/1963 | See Source »

Bedtime for Israel's most distinguished philosopher, Martin Buber, is 10 o'clock. But his 85th birthday was an exception. At the stroke of 11, some 400 students from the Hebrew University, where he taught before his retirement, paraded up Jerusalem's Lovers of Zion Street to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 22, 1963 | 2/22/1963 | See Source »

Monkey in Winter. When Jean Gabin gets drunk he thinks he is back in China. When Jean-Paul Belmondo gets drunk he thinks he is back in Spain. When they both get drunk in a village on the coast of Normandy the customer may sometimes wonder where in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Geographical Cocktail | 2/22/1963 | See Source »

Love and Larceny. "The fool banks in the crook's pocket." The old Italian proverb is wittily illustrated in this new Italian film: a merry little con manual that might serve equally for the instruction of rogues and the sophistication of innocents abroad. Educative excerpts:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Con Manual | 2/15/1963 | See Source »

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