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...Wages of Fear. Fear, oil, greed, Central America and nitroglycerin, stirred together in an angry philosophical shocker by French Director Henri-Georges Clouzot (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, may 16, 1955 | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

Even some of the larger Japanese firms, said YASUO KITAOKO of our Tokyo office, list advertising expenditures in their budgets under charity- as do nations. That was a shocker. Kitaoko, who finished training to be a kamikaze pilot at 16, just as World War II ended, explained that fly-by-night publishers, blackjacking businessmen into space-buying with threats of bad publicity, have tended to make advertising-selling a not-so-ethical profession in his country. But TIME, with its worldwide prestige, solid circulation and sound statistics, is helping to restore the profession to respectability, Kitaoko said, with a fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publisher's Letter, may 9, 1955 | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

...prodigious Rome/ Could not protect from prodigious Rome") to the heartbreaking aria of the bereaved fishwife. The fine unison chorus at the end was as rousing as a latter-day Verdi's, and the pure major triad that sang out as the curtain fell was a real shocker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lucullan Feast | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

...Wages of Fear. Fear, oil, greed, Central America and nitroglycerin, stirred together in an angry philosophical shocker by French Director Henri-Georges Clouzot (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, may 9, 1955 | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

...Wages of Fear. Fear, oil, greed, Central America and nitroglycerin, stirred together in an angry philosophical shocker by French Director Henri-Georges Clouzot (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, may 2, 1955 | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

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