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Bach's students have left the country some of its most stunning pictorial records: George Strock's heart-stopping World War II scene of a dead American soldier on Buna Beach in New Guinea, Bob Landry's slinky wartime pinup of Rita Hay worth (reprinted 60 million times), the distinguished Korean war photographs of Hank Walker and John Dominis. Today, Fremont High is still turning out expert Bach graduates. But fewer are able to cash in on Bach's training: the school has become predominantly Negro, and Teacher Bach confronts a color line (though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Teacher with a Camera | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

...Cosmic Casanova, an intergalactic lover boy tunes in a cute pinup on his rocketship TV screen. He makes an unscheduled landing on her tiny home planet, only to be disappointed when the hatch door opens. The girl turns out to be a giantess, and "I'd have looked like such a fool, standing there on tiptoe with my arms wrapped around her knees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Captain Vertigo | 2/17/1958 | See Source »

Cover Girl. In Aztec, N. Mex., Sheriff Dan Sullivan missed two prisoners, peeked behind a big pinup picture in their cell, found a 10-by-14-in. hole cut into the quarter-inch steel wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 10, 1958 | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

...embedded in a passionate plea on behalf of miscegenation. Based on James Michener's bestselling switch on John Luther Long's love story, the picture tells the tale of Major Lloyd Gruver (Marlon Brando), an ace of the Korean war known as "the Air Force's pinup boy," and a Japanese pinup girl named Hana-ogi (Miiko Taka), the star of the Matsubayashi vaudeville troupe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 16, 1957 | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

...good research professor in Russia can earn around $36,000 a year, with a number of interesting fringe benefits such as chauffeured limousines, free hospitalization and summer villas. Their income tax is low, too. Furthermore, scientists are more or less the pinup boys of the Soviet Union. Is it any wonder that a Russian high school boy, unlike our own kids, thinks science is a likely profession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 9, 1957 | 12/9/1957 | See Source »

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