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...gaminess and, what's worse, imprisons the show's vitality in a plaster cast. As the young love interest, Kim just trudges around in the well-known Novakuum, and Rita Hayworth, especially when she sings her big song (Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered), still sounds the siren, but where's the fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 28, 1957 | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

...Siren Left. Only 30 miles before Geelong, an Aussie Ford missed a sharp turn at 70 m.p.h., skidded through a fence and wound up with its rear wheels hanging over a small cliff. That first casualty lost the rally its only car equipped with a siren for scaring off kangaroos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Trial by Trouble | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

Otherwise . . . In Kingston, Tenn., Cyclist J. B. Cook, booked for public drunkenness after a mile-long flight in which he wove in and out of traffic and pedaled hard to get away despite the patrol car's spotlight and siren, mumbled with chagrin: "There's a lot of play in these handle bars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 26, 1957 | 8/26/1957 | See Source »

...dream of success: to rise from his untouchable caste as TV commercial writer to possession of his own jewel-encrusted key to the executives' washroom. This glorious consummation (duly sanctified by a heavenly choir on the sound track) is realized through Rita Marlowe (Jayne Mansfield), a squealing movie siren noted for her "oh-so-kissable lips" and her favorite boast ("All my lovers and I are just friends!"). In getting Jayne's product endorsement in the bag, Rock is nearly bagged by her, almost sandbagged by his fiancee (Betsy Drake), almost pulverized by Jayne's tree-swinging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 19, 1957 | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

Even India's Prime Minister Nehru was dragged into the international to-do over the "business relationship" between Italian Film Director Roberto Rossellini and his connecting-suite neighbor in Bombay's Taj Mahal Hotel, high-caste Siren Sonoli Das Gupta, 27, wife of an Indian movie director. A delegation from the family of doe-eyed Sonali, mother of two sons, called on Nehru with the obvious purpose of persuading him to rid Sonali of Rossellini, 51. They hinted that Rossellini claimed to be a pal of Nehru's. Neutralist Nehru took sides instanter. "That rascal!" cried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 3, 1957 | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

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