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Somebody Up There Likes Me. Paul Newman is brilliant as the slum-dumb hero in the story of Rocky Graziano's rise from mug to pug (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Choice for 1956 | 12/31/1956 | See Source »

...plentiful proof that the French are fertile and that Fernandel is versatile, for offspring abound, and all of them are Fernandel. Obviously designed solely to set off his virtuosity, the movie is merely a series of disconnected situations, which come off largely because of his personality and broadly smiling mug...

Author: By Frank R. Safford, | Title: The Sheep Has Five Legs | 11/16/1955 | See Source »

...Lunches & Cadillacs. The Sinatra day usually begins about 10 a.m. with a mug of hot coffee and a grandiose scattering of transcontinental telephone calls. A dozen people crowd around him as the makeup-man goes to work, all trying to outshout each other and a blaring radio. Off to the set in a bevy of Cadillacs, where the mob grows to 50 or 100 until Frank suddenly stands alone against a sky-blue set and moves his mouth expressively, while his voice drifts out of a distant amplifier. At the first break he piles into a box lunch, then takes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Kid from Hoboken | 8/29/1955 | See Source »

...Many a mug on the edge of the big time thinks there is a formula for dealing with newsmen: intimidate or bribe. In Galveston, Texas, where vice and crime abound, Gambling Boss Anthony Fertitta tried that formula in an effort to prevent LIFE from getting pictures of his illegal operations. It did not work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Thugs v. the Press | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

...dusk deepened on a Korean hill one evening in 1952, PETER BRAESTRUP, 2nd lieutenant, U.S.M.C.R., by way of Parris Island and Quantico out of Yale ('51), ducked into a bunker for a quick mug of coffee. During 5½ months in Korea, Lieut. Braestrup had moved mostly on the edges of war. All at once, in the bunker, he heard the chatter of gunfire and the shouts of his 30 marines on the hill. Chinese Reds were attacking in company strength. He ran out, shouting: "Pour it on, marines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publisher's Letter, may 9, 1955 | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

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