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Spry old (86) Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden, down to the butt end of a multimillion-dollar fortune built on bared chests and flexed muscles, was bounced into a Jersey City jail by his estranged third wife for nonpayment of $9,000 in alimony and legal fees. Macfadden protested that being cooped up in jail would make him ill. Scoffed blonde, elegant 49-year-old Mrs. Macfadden No. 3: "Go on, he'll outlive us all." Grumbling that his income has dwindled to only $2,000 a month. Macfadden finally put up $10,000 bail, emerged from jail with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, may 2, 1955 | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

BIGGEST URANIUM MINE in the U.S. is being developed by Anaconda Copper on the Laguna Indian reservation in New Mexico. AEC says that Anaconda's Jackpile Mine is the first multimillion-ton deposit to be found in the U.S. Reserves are estimated at 5,000,000 tons or more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Apr. 4, 1955 | 4/4/1955 | See Source »

...Away with It. That is more or less what happened five years ago in Boston when a well-organized band of crooks relieved Brinks, Inc. of its clients' assets. Jerry Florea (Tony Curtis), a born organizer, rises from a Boston gutter to mastermind the multimillion-dollar robbery. Policeman Ed Gallagher (George Nader), Jerry's longtime friendly enemy, cannot break his alibi. Just as Jerry is about to split the take, it turns out that the story idea was only half right for Hollywood. Jaws drop, eyes pop, and guys go for gats as Jerry announces to his hoods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 28, 1955 | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

...support his mother, was a millionaire at 29 and now, at 55 says he hasn't the faintest idea how much he is worth. "After the first million," explains Hirshhorn, "unless a man loves money, it's all meaningless." Last week Promoter Hirshhorn signed a multimillion-dollar agreement that had plenty of meaning, as well as money, for him. The deal will make him the No. 1 uranium producer of Canada, if not the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINING: The New Uranium King | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

...week's dramatic surprise with a play called Patterns, by Rod Serling. A many-sided study of top-level stress in a big corporation, the play had areas of strength and persuasiveness that made Executive Suite look like Little Women. The plot dealt with the arrival at the multimillion-dollar Ramsey & Co. of Richard Kiley, a young Midwest engineer who was being groomed to replace Ed Begley, veteran vice president. The sun around which both revolved was Bossman Everett Sloane, a tough, intelligent operator who handled power as if it were his own invention. The drama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 1/24/1955 | See Source »

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