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...orange tucked underneath her chin, he grapples hilariously with a problem of some physiological intricacy: how to transfer the orange from her chin to his-without using his hands. In another, pretending to be shy, he blushingly refuses to get undressed in front of Hepburn, steps firmly under a shower and starts soaping himself with all his clothes on. When Hepburn looks horrified, Grant makes a manly effort to reassure her. Fingering the material of his suit, he explains with an engaging grin: "Drip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: It's Murder | 12/20/1963 | See Source »

...DRAWING THE NUDE, PART I: THE MALE-Banfer, 23 East 67th. Adam as depicted by 23 U.S. artists. Besides an assortment of mundane classical studies there are some forceful skinscapes: Jacob Landau's unbound Prometheus agonized by fire and trance; Paul Cadmus' eerie, restive painting, The Shower; John Fenton's intimations of mortality in Death of a Bullfighter. Through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art In New York: Art: Dec. 6, 1963 | 12/6/1963 | See Source »

...running horizontally across the film. This type of radiation accompanies the largest flares. It may be followed almost immediately by a burst of high-energy particles which travel toward the earth at almost the speed of light. These powerful particles can cause terrestrial radio blackouts. These days later a shower cloud of particles may reach the earth and cause geomagnetic storms and aurorae...

Author: By Peter Cummings, | Title: Harvard Astronomers Study Solar Rays | 10/30/1963 | See Source »

...Whatever interpretation conjure women may have put on the story that stars fell on Alabama, it is not legend but fact. "The night the stars fell" was Nov. 15, 1833, when a meteor shower put on a spectacular display remembered for a lifetime by those who witnessed it. My great-great-grandfather (no conjure man, but an M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania) was sufficiently impressed that he gave his daughter, born in Montgomery that night, the name Mary Meteora...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 4, 1963 | 10/4/1963 | See Source »

...smart and I would answer him in the same style-kill him too." Valachi was so frightened he asked prison guards to put him in solitary confinement. But as soon as he got out, Mafia Mobster John Dioguardia (Johnny Dio), who was in charge of the prison shower room, invited Valachi in to take a shower. Valachi, convinced he would be murdered there, refused. Panicky, he tried to "stay out of crowds" in the prison yard, finally grabbed a length of iron pipe lying conveniently in the yard and bludgeoned a prisoner he thought was going to kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investigations: Killers in Prison | 10/4/1963 | See Source »

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