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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Aumont) in Hong Kong. When her husband finds out, he (of course) packs her off posthaste to the nearest outbreak of cholera. Her character immediately begins to improve. The local white trash (George Sanders) philosophically assures her that Schnapps ist gut für die Cholera. But at the sight of a corpse the heroine clutches her throat theatrically and gasps: "It makes everything else seem horribly trivial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 10, 1957 | 6/10/1957 | See Source »

...Britons felt that they should go back to Sulgrave; Americans, mindful of the legend that Betsy Ross got the design for the American flag from the stars and stripes of the coat of arms, thought they should be brought to the U.S. With no rich American contingent in sight, the bidding opened at ?500, moved to ?1,000 before a young London dealer named Derek Cecil Davis began to bid. By the time the bidding reached ?2,500, it was between Davis and a dealer named Robert Jack. At ?3,200 ($8,960), the auctioneer held the gavel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mementos for Americans | 6/10/1957 | See Source »

...view, the risks are outweighed by the opportunities. If the Russians (as he said at his press conference) now show themselves to be "reasonable, logical men," the first reversal in the eleven-year-old East-West armaments race might be in sight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Green Light for Stassen | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

...Titoist intriguer in Albania who fled because he feared he had been discovered, his appearance in Belgrade at this moment was a little embarrassing to his host. Tito was just getting ready to send his own Defense Minister to Russia, and hurriedly hustled Plaku out of sight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALBANIA: Over the Hill | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

This was an unnerving sight in the dim dawn-light which filtered in the window, and we were disturbed; we stared silently and the olive seemed to stare back...

Author: By Walter E. Wilson, | Title: Bloop | 5/28/1957 | See Source »

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