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...during the windiest dignitary's speech, making her own speeches short and dignified, and flashing her warm smile discreetly where it is most needed. The greatest freedom she enjoys today is that of being able to go shopping alone with a lady in waiting in London's smartest shops. This pleasure, like others in the grown-up Princess' life, requires money that only a Princess can afford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Choice | 11/7/1955 | See Source »

...most interesting fact in U.S. publishing today is that the paperbacks have become respectable. Cheap paperback reprints and originals have been published in the U.S. for more than a century without becoming a stable factor in the book business. But today, some of the smartest U.S. publishers privately concede that hard-cover books cost too much. They also know that there are far more potential readers than there are customers willing to pay current hard-cover prices. Result: alongside the diminishing flood of glossy-covered quarter dreadfuls is an increasing stream of serious paperbacks, including the finest books ever written...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Respectable Paperbacks | 4/4/1955 | See Source »

...shake off his Communist advisers," Ernst recalled. "But either he got annoyed or his Communist friends intercepted the letter, because neither I nor any other member of the family heard from him again." Reflected Uncle Ernst, who once lived in Guatemala: "I remember the boy well. One of the smartest. He could have done great honor to our name if he had only chosen his friends better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUATEMALA: Visit to the Old Country | 1/3/1955 | See Source »

International Business Machines Corp. claimed last week that its newest electronic computer is the smartest built so far. Named NORC (Naval Ordnance Research Calculator) and soon to be delivered to the Navy, it takes only thirty-one millionths of a second to multiply two 13-digit numbers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Let NORC Do It | 12/13/1954 | See Source »

...spent a lifetime living well at small cost to herself, and bringing profit and pleasure to others. Today, for the publicity she brings, a top Paris dressmaker supplies her with 14 dresses a year on the house. She can invite a score of guests to one of the smartest Paris restaurants and the check will be "lost." Elsa has what it takes. At 71, she is still going strong, still feels "like a little girl on Christmas morning," expecting that "something wonderfully exciting is about to happen." Most likely, it will be another party for an awful lot of famous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Little Girl from Keokuk | 11/1/1954 | See Source »

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