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...fond d'un regard que Von decouvre une ame," insisted the soulful pitchman for a mascara pencil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Oscars for Commercials | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

...credit for an imagination he doesn't have. And in relating a macabre story of a friend, Vera, the girl, says "he grinned and wandered off," which is one grin we doubt ever got grinned, as they say. But these quibbles are morning-after quibbles which any quick blue pencil could crunch...

Author: By Gavin Scott, | Title: The Harvard Advocate | 9/30/1958 | See Source »

...Rogers slipped in quietly. So did some wives and children of the Justices. Soon two page boys in knickers and high black socks mounted the bench, pushed the nine chairs back and forth to see if they rolled easily, made sure that each Justice was provided with his customary pencil, scissors and paper. In a few seconds they were gone. Abruptly, from behind the red draperies hanging between the Italian marble columns, the members of the court appeared, and the court crier chanted his old cry of "Oyez! Oyez! Oyez...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SUPREME COURT: No Time for Bridge Burners | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

...pencil-thin (6 ft., 140 Ibs.) Charlie Coe, 34, the whole week had been painfully tiring. Trudging over the tough, 6,680-yd. Lake Course at San Francisco's Olympic Club, the Oklahoma oil broker rested on a shooting stick between each stroke, burying his face in his hands and moodily wondering how to get his drives out of the rough and his putts into the hole. Still, the 1949 Amateur champ and veteran Walker Cupper somehow got through each round, finally defeated Ohio Blanket Salesman Roger McManus 3 and 2 on the 34th hole to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Charlie's the Name | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

...only nine. Later he managed to combine a college career (University of Pittsburgh) with a job as assistant conductor and violinist in the Pittsburgh Symphony. He also learned to master every other instrument in the orchestra, plus African drums (which he plays with one hand and a pencil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Fastest-Moving Conductor | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

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