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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...true. Scarcely a line in Sy (The Big Country) Bartlett's script rings true, and some of them are almost ridiculously false. ("How did a girl as pretty as you get to be the biggest witch in Hollywood?" a famous actress shrieks at Sheilah. "Only the second biggest," Sheilah purrs back, looking as if she has just said something brilliant.) And scarcely a scene goes right for Director Henry (The Bravados) King. The principals stumble around in patent and sometimes comical confusion. Deborah Kerr is a fine, sensitive actress, but when she tries to play Sheilah as a hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 7, 1959 | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

...started their Christmas season from the highest take-off point in history. Sales in the final pre-Thanksgiving week hit 182 on the 1947-49 index, up from 169 in 1958. Only 5% ahead of 1958 at the beginning of November, department-store sales were 6% ahead in the second week of the month, 8% ahead in the third. Other signs of a faster beat in the economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: From Peak to Peak | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

ALLEGHANY FIGHT is heading for showdown after compromise attempts failed. Chairman Allan P. Kirby has withdrawn offer to give Boston Financier Abraham Sonnabend a seat on Allegheny's board, will not extend a second otter to buy 200,000 shares of stock claimed by Sonnabend, and challenges him to a proxy fight. Sonnabend is mum on plans, has not yet filed statement of proxy intentions with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Dec. 7, 1959 | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

Diminishing Returns. In Pittsburgh, John James, 19, was arrested for stealing one car, stealing a second to push the first when it broke down, then siphoning gas from a third after the second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 7, 1959 | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

After a sluggish beginning for both teams, second line center Stew Forbes gave the Crimson a 1-0 lead when he took a pass from Jim Dwinnell and laced the puck past goalie Jim Logue into the lower right hand corner of the cage at 10:23 of the first period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B.C. Squad Beats Crimson In Hockey Season Opener | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

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