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"On the fourth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me," sing the carolers-and then everything goes haywire. "Four bars of soap," they trill, "three cans of peas, two breakfast foods, and some toothpaste on a pear tree." Later, they launch into another holiday favorite: "Dashing through the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIN PAN ALLEY: Let's Run It up the Fir Tree | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

For a while, the boy (who was called Edward) and the girl (who was called Deborah) propered; they had children. But Hollywood is a wicked place, and soon the nice, wholesome boy began to grow less nice and less wholesome. A friend died, and Edward, like the nice, wholesome boy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Many-Splintered Thing | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

For Christmas this year, Lockheed and most other planemakers, Continental Oil Co.. Diamond Alkali are mailing letters wishing one and all a very merry holiday, but please do not send any gifts to our employees. Boeing Airplane, U.S. Steel, California Packing, Cutter Laboratories, Morri-son-Knudsen Co. and Dresser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THAT CHRISTMAS LOOT,: Santa Bring More Headaches Than Cheer | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

Guinness, of course, is a howl; the wheezing, hawking, spitting image of a merry old soak. He sports a fortnight's grizzle, along with "eyes like a pair of half-sucked acid drops," and he has developed a horrendously comic walk. Yet he never lets the spectator forget that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 24, 1958 | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

Rats in the White House. "I gravitate to a capital by a primary law of nature," Adams had said, and in 1877 he and Marian settled close by the White House. (President John Adams was Henry's great-grandfather, John Quincy Adams his grandfather.) Under her 20-tapered chandelier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Adams & Eve | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

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