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...soon after his arrival, an Indian correspondent wearing a Gandhi cap was mistaken for Nehru and overwhelmed by a flower-brandishing mob who almost trampled him to death trying to kiss him. But there were no Indian newsmen around when Nehru got his ace view of the week: a peek at a Soviet atomic center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Salaam Aleikum | 7/4/1955 | See Source »

...Game of Hearts: Harriette Wilson's Memoirs, edited by Lesley Blanch. A saucy, intimate peek at Regency London's beaux and belles from the boudoir of the most celebrated courtesan of the day (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Jul. 4, 1955 | 7/4/1955 | See Source »

Along Paris' grim Rue Hippolyte Maindron stands a squat concrete building half hidden by a rickety gate. A casual passerby might think it a garage, but one peek through the window would probably give him a jolting surprise. The small. 12-by-15-ft. room is the private world of one of the world's most original sculptors: wiry, bushy-haired Alberto Giacometti. 53. In 28 years, a good deal of Giacometti has rubbed off onto the floors and walls of his bare, grey studio. The workbench is encrusted with old paint drippings and scabs of plaster. Cigarette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Ordeal by Sculpture | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

...woman's wile is too corny or battle-worn for Lola as she romps about the stage to an insistent Latin rhythm, flinging caution and clothing to the winds. Stretched on a locker-room bench upstage, she sparks the onslaught with a try at the always reliable peek-a-boo technique. "Allo, Joe, it's meee-ee," she coos. A second later she is up and mincing forward as purposefully pigeon-toed as Betty Boop. Along the line two gloves and a skirt fly off; then, as suddenly sultry as the sirocco, Lola wheels to flaunt the angular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Devil's Disciple | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

...abstraction. Emphasizing the trend is Brooklyn Museum's only U.S. purchase. Two Points of Interest by Brooklyn Artist Edmond Casarella, 34, is a scrawled composition of broken space which slowly unjangles to reveal forms suggesting an apartment house, shades half drawn, laundry on the line, and a peek into a bedroom with a closed door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Postwar Decade | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

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