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...sort of Nelson Eddy with muscles, and is currently Hollywood's leading graduate of the Broadway school of musi-comedy, has not only a fine chesty baritone but the chest to go with it. As a blonde actress who plays a petulant Kate in a reddish wig. Kathryn Grayson pouts prettily but looks as though she is never quite sure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 16, 1953 | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

...office, Mohammed el Abboud appeared to enjoy a gay, unworried life, was happily married to the beautiful, reddish-haired Fadwa, half his age, who liked to drive fast cars and shocked the orthodox by wearing shorts in public. But defeat gnawed at Mohammed. When the 1953 elections were announced, he filed for his old seat against the enemy.Suleiman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEBANON: The Avengers Await | 9/21/1953 | See Source »

...forage for themselves, countless children in Asia, Africa and South America suffer from kwashiorkor (a West African word meaning red boy), Capetown's Dr. John F. Brock reported in Manhattan. Fed mainly on manioc gruel, they are stunted and their skin and hair lose pigment, making them look reddish or grey. For short-term relief, U.N. agencies are supplying thousands of tons of dried skim milk, rich in protein. But in the long run, said Dr. Brock, these primitive peoples must be taught to feed their children beans, which they can raise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Feb. 23, 1953 | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

...days later, still in grief, the Sultan met Marcella Mendl. She was a tall, reddish-blonde Rumanian who spoke five languages, and it was a case of love at first sight. The warring British at that moment were too busy to comment on his marriage to Marcella, and the couple lived peacefully in Pasir Plangie Palace through the Japanese occupation. It was not until 1951, when the Sultan was preoccupied with his year-old child and also beginning to feel his 79 years, that the British went even further to displease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MALAYA: Landlord & Tenant | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

Billy Graham has taken evangelism to the tailor. He wears a jaunty sky-blue gabardine, cut full to flatter his spare figure (6 ft. 2 in., 180 Ibs.). Accessories: a blue and white tie and square-folded white handkerchief, thick-soled, reddish-brown shoes, a cowboy belt with a silver buckle and silver tip. ("You know," muses Billy, "when I was a kid, I used to think that preachers all wore black suits and long faces.") In his campaign posters, Billy's face is sleekly handsome; the reality seems gaunter and more impressive-deep-set, remote blue eyes, sharp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: PERSONALITY | 11/17/1952 | See Source »

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