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"Now that Mrs. Luce is about to leave us, we shall miss the grace, sweetness and firmness with which she fitted into the Italian scene . . . She is a lady of whom many Italians have become very fond . . . Everyone will be sorry to see her go, especially those irreconcilable supporters of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 17, 1956 | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

Destruction of the "I." Above all, like all mystics, she hoped to transcend self. "We possess nothing in this world-for chance may deprive us of everything-except the power to say 'I.' It is that which has to be offered up to God, that is to say...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Saint of the Undecided | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

According to the film, De Sylva, Brown and Henderson (Gordon MacRae, Ernest Borgnine and Dan Dailey) were Broadway characters as salty as the waiters in Lindy's, and for most of the distance they give the customer a pretty fair run for his money. MacRae lays his wad on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 29, 1956 | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

This was our first really close look at the dancers. Only one of the men looked frail and particularly feminine, the others were slight but athletic. Their faces were chiselled. I thought of the sketch of Kirkegaard by Manet with its Nordic impishness. The women were lovely, budding, blossoming and...

Author: By Lowell J. Rubin, | Title: Raisins in the Danish or A Night in the Ballet | 10/9/1956 | See Source »

¶ In Tokyo the Exchange Student Association, an informal group of students who have studied abroad, decided to publish a few words of wisdom for the benefit of the 1,000 young Japanese who will spend next year in the U.S. Sample advice to the girls: "When an American man...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Report Card | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

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