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Hot Spot sends Judy Holliday to D'hum, pronounced doom. D'hum is a semi-Tibetan, semitropical country populated in its whimsical, multialtitudinal way mostly by yaks and native girls in hula skirts. It may have seemed droll to cast Judy Holliday as a Peace Corps clown, a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Poor Judy | 4/26/1963 | See Source »

Those that remain today seem to be concentrated in 65 acres of land set in the piney woods 3½ miles from Murfreesboro (pop. 1,100). The field first became prominent in 1906 when a young guide, John Wesley Huddleston, picked up a glittering pebble after a rainstorm. When a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Geology: Do-lt-Yourself Diamonds | 4/12/1963 | See Source »

Sedentary System. The mining methods used at present are simple and relaxed, returning considerable pleasure and a very few diamonds to tourists who pay $1.50 for a day's digging. Last year 65,000, including kids at 50? per head, slopped through the muddy gullies. Many of them, says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Geology: Do-lt-Yourself Diamonds | 4/12/1963 | See Source »

"Little Rome." C.U. began as a graduate school for priests, and although it let in undergraduates in 1904 and women in 1920, it is still something of a graduate-level seminary. Dominated by the vast National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, the campus is ringed by 87 houses of study...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Universities: Crisis at Catholic U. | 3/29/1963 | See Source »

Don't let Sophia say, "I think I've twisted my foot," and then disclose the damage by demurely hoisting her skirts all the way to her hips.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: In a Plaster-of-Paris Paris | 3/15/1963 | See Source »

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