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If Jacques Offenbach wasn't a funny old gentleman whose feet were "firmly fixed in the clouds," he probably should have been. Pierre Fresnay's screen portrayal of the nearsighted and bewhiskered French composer is delightful. He ambles blithely into a ladies' dressing room, offers a job to a status...

Author: By Jonathan Beecher, | Title: Paris Waltz | 12/1/1955 | See Source »

Night of the Hunter. In Le Havre, France, facing a damage suit, Pastry Cook Jean Duchemin explained that he is nearsighted, thus potted a traveling circus' baby giraffe because it looked to him like a rabbit.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 14, 1955 | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

Horace on Half a Dollar. When Paul was 13, the Stapps decided that it was time their oldest boy became an American, and he was enrolled in the San Marcos Baptist Academy in Texas. Young Paul, slight, nearsighted and a bookworm, found San Marcos a school for "displaced hellions." The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Fastest Man on Earth | 9/12/1955 | See Source »

Early Life. Born Aug. 18, 1908 in Béziers in southern France, the son of a French army doctor, Edgar Jean Vincent Barthelemy Faure (pronounced fore) was a nearsighted youth but a dazzling student, won his bachelor's degree at 15, his law degree at 19 from the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: FRANCE'S NEW PREMIER | 3/7/1955 | See Source »

Hollywood last week used television to introduce to 31 million viewers its newest, and possibly funniest, comedy team: Irene Dunne and Louella Parsons. Actress Dunne and Columnist Parsons were supposed to have only bit parts in the 1½-hour program devoted to nominations for moviedom's treasured Oscars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Nominees | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

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