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In Hollywood, it was a confirmed fact that Cinemactress Rita (Fire Down Below) Hayworth, 39, is going to marry her boss, Writer-Producer James Hill, 41. of the Midas-touch Hecht-Hill-Lancaster independent moviemaking outfit. Eying his prospects of being Rita's fifth bridegroom, Bachelor Hill, now busy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 25, 1957 | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

The Housemasters met last night to discuss the proposed change in parietal regulations. Unlike the proverbial King Midas, they refused to whisper their knowledge to the grasses, so it will remain a big secret.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Parietal Secrecy | 12/6/1956 | See Source »

Except for nice music. Pipe Dream is pretty much of a bust. It is so warm-hearted about a cold world, so high-minded about its lowlifes as to emerge mere hootch-coated butterscotch. Its bawdyhouse seems about as sinful as Saturday night in a Y.W.C.A.; when its mugs and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Rodger and Hammerstein's Pipe Dream | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

Story of Midas, Baucis and Philemon, The Invasion of Troy and dozens of others. The "something extra" that Ovid brings to each saga is the saving detail of homely human interest, and Translator Humphries helps bring it out with homely colloquial touches of his own. As Daedalus fashions feathers into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old Myths Made New | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

The myth is easy enough to debunk. It is based on reasoning of the most specious kind. There is, say the myth makers, an unbridgeable gap between the Democratic and Republican parties. If the Democrats gain control of Congress, therefore, the Administration would have its hands tied during one of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Democratic Congress | 10/26/1954 | See Source »

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