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...time young Scripps turned in after dawn, he had firmly twisted one of Christ's sayings to his own future uses: "It is more profitable to give wages, than to receive them." Some weeks later, sitting in the Colosseum in Rome on a moonlit night, he extended his credo: "Let the other fellow have all the glory. Let him occupy the place in the limelight. For me, I only care to have the power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Genus: Successful Crank | 4/30/1951 | See Source »

...Scottish veterinary student from the University of Edinburgh was one of the first to interest the world in Nessie. He was riding home on his motorbike along the shores of a lake in the Inverness Highlands on a moonlit winter night in 1934 when he saw the beast. "I was almost on it," said Arthur Grant later, "when a small head on a long neck turned in my direction, and the object, taking fright, made two great bounds, crossed the road and plunged into the lake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Monster Rally | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

Sometimes they coalesced into moonlit mountains, houses or shadowy wild creatures, and sometimes not. One might question the communicative skill of Price's work, but never its integrity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Long Trail | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

...marriage, solemnized in the midst of preparations for Jennifer's new European-made film, Gone to Earth, was scripted by Selznick himself. After some rumors that the wedding had been performed at sea, the couple foxed reporters by slipping off to Genoa's city hall. Fadeout: a moonlit honeymoon on the French Riviera aboard the Manona, a 33-ton chartered yacht...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 25, 1949 | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

...immigrant student in one of Schoolmarm Mayo's naturalization classes, he gets off an excellent range of muddled European accents. Brightest piece of invention: a bit of hot-weather Americana, in which the sound track picks up the nasal lovemaking of a Brooklyn couple in the moonlit shadows of Jones Beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 25, 1949 | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

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