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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...America, which grossed $38 million on its filmed series (M Squad, Wagon Train) last year, down to one-shot independents, e.g., Jack (Lassie) Wrather. The range is qualitative as well: Independent Robert Saudek has won Emmys and Peabody Awards for Omnibus, while Warner Bros, ground out ephemeral, low-budget shoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Ultimate Responsibility | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

...French pictures are frankly sexy-probably on the average a little more sexy than the old French pictures. They are also Nouvelle Vaguely romantic in love scenes, which they often shoot through peculiar filters in a tricky way. Much of the camera work, in fact, is too clever-it is hard to see the picture for the pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Wave | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

Lady Edith is feeling rather pipped, or she would shoot the python herself. From the reports of the villagers, it is a great, ropy beast-and it will creep forth to kill again after it recovers from a two-week digestive coma brought on by swallowing Lady Edith's cook. So Lady Edith, who runs an orphanage near Bihar, India, delegates the job of python stalking to a half-Indian, half-American Quaker youth named Peter Bruff. Though courageous, Peter is an abstracted, mystical young man. He is also a poet, and his work, a heroic poem about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wild Quaker Oats | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

Healy, 62, accepted invitations from the Air Defense Command to witness an interceptor missile shoot called Project William Tell II at Tyndall Air Force Base (near Panama City, Fla.)-and, incidentally, to absorb some good-natured press-agentry that would help still public complaints over loud jet noises and chimney-rattling sonic booms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Tale of Two Mayors | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

...lacking in woodcraft and marksmanship to approach a dangerous wild squirrel, might feel safe with these. These woods are a part of the pasture used by my horses and milk cow; also, the late arrival will find them already full of other hunters. He is kindly requested not to shoot either of these." The advertiser: Oxford's own, only Nobel Prizewinning Author William Faulkner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 2, 1959 | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

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