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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rising, clear-toned shout. At 53, Josephine Baker, the supple emigre from St. Louis who sailed into the heart of Paris on the high old tides of the '20s, is still a top banana of the boulevards. It is three years since her last "retirement," but Paris Mes Amours, her new revue at the Olympia Music Hall, promises to pack them in as long as Paris has the price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEADLINERS: Charleston Forever | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

...wrote Hollywood Gossipist Hedda Hopper five years ago about the former Julia Jean Mildred Frances Turner, the former Mrs. Artie Shaw, the former MES. Stephen Crane (twice), the former Mrs. Bob Topping, the former Mrs. Lex ("Tarzan") Barker-better known to millions as Cinemactress Lana Turner. Lana Turner had a daughter, Cheryl, to whom she gave gifts, money, luxurious living, exclusive schooling-everything, in fact, except a normal upbringing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Death on the Pink Carpet | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

...would al agre that the horible mes of silent 'E's' in our language is disgrasful. Therfor, in 1961, we kould drop thes and kontinu to read and writ merily along as though we wer in an atomik ag of eduka-tion. Sins by this tim it would be four years sins anywun had used the leter 'C', we would then sugest substituting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Drim Kum Tru | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

...revoir, mon général. Au revoir, mes camarades. Vive la France!" Then De Castries ordered artillery fire from Isabelle against his own command post...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDO-CHINA: The Fall of Dienbienphu | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

...stump etched against the flarelight. The Moroccans repel them, and quiet comes. For almost eleven hours the tired armies get a rest. Early afternoon, the Communists slam in heavy strength against Bald Head, and edge the Moroccans off the crest. But De Castries is still confident. "Le moral de mes hommes est formidable," he says on the radio to HQ. "If you see my wife," adds De Castries coolly, "give her a kiss from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDO-CHINA: He Who Holds Out | 4/12/1954 | See Source »

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