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Merry Fiddle. Reichhold, who draws a $100,000-plus salary, has seen his plowed-back profits build him a personal fortune which he puts at $30 million, most of it in his company. But despite his wealth, he has no use for show. He drives his own Ford, eats $1...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHEMICALS: The Little Giant | 9/7/1953 | See Source »

Mostly Richards. Over the years, Author Hamilton has turned out an estimated 70 million words about Bunter and others like him. A wispy, monkish little man of 82 who wears a black skull cap and translates Horace, he has used a number of pen names: Martin Clifford, creator of Tom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Forever Bunter | 8/24/1953 | See Source »

James Caesar Petrillo, the merry dictator of the American Federation of Musicians, was back from talks in Europe with some slightly revised opinions on foreign trade. Not only was he now willing to allow foreign orchestras to play in the U.S., but he might even reconsider his old opposition to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 17, 1953 | 8/17/1953 | See Source »

Dream Wife (MGM) is a merry little barbecue of Adam's Rib. When the lights go down, Gary Grant comes up looking shy, eligible and enormously wealthy as a big U.S. importer who has dropped in on a Middle Eastern oil kingdom to make a dicker of some vague...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 17, 1953 | 8/17/1953 | See Source »

Eat, Drink & Be Merry. In Savannah, when Mrs. Annie L. Horski sued the local Coca-Cola bottling company for $20,000 after allegedly finding a cockroach in one of its bottles, Defense Counsel Alex Lawrence told the jury that the insect could cause her no harm, to prove his point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 20, 1953 | 7/20/1953 | See Source »

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