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...carrier U.S.S. Bon Homme Richard and eased gracefully onto the canted flight deck. The plane was Chance Vought's supersonic F8U Crusader. The new jet had already landed successfully on the supercarrier Forrestal's big 1,036-ft. deck; now it proved that it could also nest on the standard 876-ft. deck length of Essex-Oriskany-class carriers. Exulted one airman: "This baby takes us out of the third row and puts us right up front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Crusader to the Rescue | 7/2/1956 | See Source »

Hilda makes the stunned discovery that, because of Guy's queasy feelings about his departed mother, she has been trapped into what the tabloids call a "kissless" marriage. So. naturally, Hilda turns for solace to lecherous Jean Pierre. When Guy surprises them in their love nest, he is upset and punches Aumont on the jaw. Hilda goes reeling home for her handful of pills, but-naturally-Guy gets there in time to call for a stomach pump, and tells Hilda he is dreadfully sorry about the whole thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 21, 1956 | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

...this spring. He swears he will never come back. As Cervantes said, "Don't look for any birds this year in last year's nest." He's nobody's bird in the hand. He takes his freedom seriously, and doesn't mind getting a little drunk. "One swallow doesn't make a Spring," he remarked last night in Cronin's. "I'm so stoned I feel like two birds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thresky | 5/11/1956 | See Source »

...Nest Egg. In Lubbock, Texas, Robert Lee was arrested for illegal possession of liquor after agents searched his farm, found bottles hidden in the turkey pen, under a rabbit hutch, in the chicken coop, under a setting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 30, 1956 | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

...featured Henry Jones as a lack-wit garage mechanic who first fails in an attempt to murder his wife, and then wants her to live when she has a near-fatal accident. Climax! sniffled over the woes of beautiful Ruth Roman as she gambled away her husband's nest egg, was accused of stealing $5,000, and made a gesture toward suicide before falling into hubby's arms in a roadside motel for the final clinch that solved everything. Lux Video Theater struggled hopelessly with a limp script about some papier-mâché gangsters who were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

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