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...Francisco Chronicle, was such an important figure that he was petitioned to run for mayor, was called on to settle labor disputes, and had a big hand in the city's civic affairs. Vice President Smith, who quit his job as editor four months ago, will roam the company troubleshooting wherever Crowell-Collier needs him, at $40,000-plus a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Troubleshooter | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

...opera, ballet, folk dancing, and scenes of joyous living on the kolkhoz farm. From several shots of the countryside, laden with produce, the camera takes you inside the Bolshoi Theatre; in Russian, bolshoi means great, but in this instance it might be translated huge. At least a hundred men roam about the stage in Prince Igor and a flock of birds scurries across the dawn at the appropriate moment...

Author: By Jonathan O. Swan, | Title: Grand Concert | 3/4/1953 | See Source »

...workmen swarming over the palace on the first big job: laying watertight new lead plate on 27 acres of leaky roofs. During the next two years the interior will reconditioned and repaired, and Versailles will begin to display its old glories to the 700,000 or more visitors who roam its ornate halls every year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: To the Rescue | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

...dwarf antelopes no bigger than a terrier, and goliath beetles the size of a dove; Pygmy hunters with humplike buttocks, and the society of Leopardmen, whose ferocious devotees riutilate their victims with tiny knives that leave marks like a leopard's claws. Across Africa's unplowed ranges roam herds of big game, more numerous even than the buffalo that fed the North American Indians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: Sunrise on the Gold Coast | 2/9/1953 | See Source »

...Crimson Pirate. Buccaneer Burt Lancaster and his cutthroat crew roam the Mediterranean in a merry travesty on pirate movies (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Jan. 19, 1953 | 1/19/1953 | See Source »

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