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...hero protests that he feels just fine, but wily Willie reminds him that the big insurance firms have so much money "they run out of storage space -have to microfilm it." And so for the next 100 minutes, the customers watch the illegal mind at work as an expert engages in a national pastime: swindling the insurance company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Illegal Mind at Work | 10/28/1966 | See Source »

...that the company would drop the suit if Sparger would make a complete, Nielsen-ghosted public confession of his activities and Lowe would pay $100,000 to cover the company's expenses in the case. Sparger and Lowe rejected the terms; with that, Nielsen publicly showed off a microfilm of the Sparger-Lowe check and the damning depositions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Tripped on the Riggings | 7/15/1966 | See Source »

...library, which occupies half of the 26th floor of the TIME & LIFE Building, houses some 83,000 books, half a million biographic and other file folders, and is staffed by 117 men and women, 22 of whom hold degrees in library science. The bureau also maintains a microfilm section and in dex files that hold 3,000,000 cards. It regularly receives approximately 1,000 different periodicals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Mar. 25, 1966 | 3/25/1966 | See Source »

Lest the spell of his glare be broken, Ormandy very rarely consults a score when conducting. He commits everything to memory, which in his case is a kind of built-in microfilm system that now encompasses more than a thousand compositions. Ormandy says he developed his powers of total recall as a child in his native Budapest. Father was a dentist who was determined that his son should be a great violinist. So while he drilled away on patients' teeth in the front room, he kept an ear cocked to be sure that young Jeno (Hungarian for Eugene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conductors: Hungarian's Rhapsody | 10/15/1965 | See Source »

...classified documents for them in return for $300 a month. A few months later, Johnson recruited Mintkenbaugh, also in the Army in Berlin, to work with him. A male Russian agent named "Paula" gave Mintkenbaugh a 35-mm. camera, along with a quick course in developing microdots and hiding microfilm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Espionage: The Spy Who Broke & Told | 4/16/1965 | See Source »

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