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...Movie Producer Sam Katzman, waving a cigar the size of a shinny stick, "you'd find every one of them has an ulcer inside." "Jungle Sam" Katzman probably will never have either an Oscar or an ulcer. He specializes in such surefire blends of sex and adventure as Serpent of the Nile and Battle of Rogue River, plus a stream of quickies for the cap-pistol set (Chief of the Senecas, Jet Commandos), and a seemingly endless chain-ten so far-of Jungle Jim pictures. Jungle Sam never spends more than half a million dollars on a film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Jungle Sam | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

...search in the right places. The deeps are too poor in food to support large creatures. On some future expedition he hopes to comb the more promising waters of the continental slopes, and perhaps latch on to a grown-up eel as big as the legendary sea serpent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: From the Lower Depths | 4/21/1952 | See Source »

...burlesque of Johnny Ray's bestseller Cry, is the work of Stan Freberg, 25, an exponent of the Al Capp-Henry Morgan school of humor, who is otherwise known to Los Angeles' junior TV fans as Cecil the Seasick Sea Serpent on the Time for Beany show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: It's the Style | 3/31/1952 | See Source »

...patient." Neither King nor Premier could now capitulate completely to the British, even if he wanted to. Instead, the new Premier decided to turn first to corruption within. He suspended Parliament for a month, and shut down his old Fuad University, which, he said, had become "a rumor serpent." A few days before, Fuad students had paraded with placards threatening riots if the British were not thrown out within 20 days. Then the Premier announced, in a note to the King, that he would get after the corruption and nepotism which had poisoned the Wafd party. "Parliamentary seats are sold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Everything I Asked | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

Brandishing his mock-serpent scepter, Lucifer proclaimed in mixed Spanish and Indian that he was the Prince of Darkness, and proved it with impressive leaps and tooth-grinding roars. Immediately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: The Devilishness | 3/3/1952 | See Source »

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