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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since then, as before, TIME's Man of the Year has often symbolized powerful human effort in the age-old will to freedom. In 1949 Winston Churchill was chosen Man of the Half Century with these words: "That a free world survived in 1950 . . . was due in large measure to his exertions." Last year, as the battle flared in Central Europe, the Man of the Year was a nameless, single-minded Hungarian Freedom Fighter...
...talk, of course, was witty and waspish, pithy and pulverizing, often profound; but "the slovenly particularities" of the man were never forgotten by Directors Alan Schneider and Seymour Robbie, or by Makeup Man Bob O'Bradovich, who helped make Peter Ustinov's Johnson the goutiest, twitchingest, most scarred and scrofulous hulk of a man ever to wobble across the TV screen. It took 36-year-old British Actor Ustinov two hours to glue down his beard, stuff himself with padding, and secure the five-piece foam latex mask that had been modeled on Sir Joshua Reynolds' celebrated...
...students in Paris, about 39,000 either find rooms at the university or live at home. But the rest must find squalid attic rooms, often without running water and usually with an exorbitant rent of as much as $80 a month. "Many students," says Secretary Jacques Bertherat of the students' federation, "are forced to do their reading and writing in cafés and bistros, which at least provide some warmth during the winter months...
...effort pays off handsomely for the employer. Most former alcoholics are so grateful for the help they receive that they become standout workers on returning to the job. Often they form counseling groups or act as personal missionaries to other company problem drinkers. Allis-Chalmers has cut its firing rate for alcoholics from 95% to 8% since it started its program in 1946, in the same time has cut its absentee rate among the treated from 8% to 3%-lower than the plant average. Considering such savings in production hours-and the fact that company programs for the problem drinker...
...drugstores, Howard Johnson restaurants, newsstands, toy stores and mail-order houses. Their authors are either long dead (and their work, therefore, in the public domain) or journeyman writers, many of them organized in large talent pools. Ideas are assigned, stories written and rewritten by teams of writers and editors, often recalling the Hollywood assembly lines...