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Breathless (Films Around the World) is a cubistic thriller that has an audience because half a century of modern art and movies have rigorously educated the public eye. Filmed on the cheap ($90,000) by an obscure, 30-year-old film critic (Jean-Luc Godard) of the French New Wave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cubistic Crime | 2/17/1961 | See Source »

* Gann's plane suffered from a broken hinge bolt that helped hold the tail flipper. By sheer good fortune, he had flown with just the right combination of power, speed and weight to keep the damaged flipper from pulling too far away from the rest of the tail. On...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Folded Wings | 1/27/1961 | See Source »

At first glance, the two bombs appeared to be nothing special. One looked like a blunt-nosed torpedo; the other had the shape of a bulky, overweight blimp. So why, until last week, had the State Department suppressed all pictures of them for 15 secretive years?

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Little Boy & Fat Man | 12/19/1960 | See Source »

A widower since 1943, tapir-nosed Comic Jimmy Duronte, 67, has long been a prime target for ladies in search of a mature man with wit. poise and rough-hewn charm. But Durante's only favorite since 1945 has been sometime Actress Margie Little, 39, who knows that a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 19, 1960 | 12/19/1960 | See Source »

¶"Hymie the Mink" (square moniker: Herman Wallman), a Manhattan furrier turned boxing manager, who could not hide his astonishment at Gibson's volubility ("You or I would take the Fifth Amendment," Hymie told a reporter). Admitting that he knew Carbo shuffled managers and fighters like a deck of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Runyon Without Romance | 12/19/1960 | See Source »

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