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Within its sphere, though, this picture benefits from imaginative direction and photography. The scenes are forceful, realistic, and historically accurate, but in contrast. Marlon Brando's characterization of Zapata carries all the life, fire and determination of a snowman...

Author: By William Burden, | Title: Viva Zapata | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

...Black River of Tibet." Soon afterward another high-altitude Himalayan traveler came across a similar line of tracks. He persuaded his sulky porters to follow them in the direction the toes pointed. Even the terrified Tibetans felt fairly safe: they knew that if a man followed an Abominable Snowman's tracks with the toes pointing forward, he was only going where the Snowman had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Legend of the Himalayas | 12/17/1951 | See Source »

Forty years ago Erich's family & friends thought he might be a new Mozart. He had one of Mozart's names, the same precocity, and a gift for melody. His ballet (The Snowman), composed when he was eleven, was produced in Vienna two years later. Before he was 20 he had written two operas. The Dead City, written at 23, won him fame throughout Europe, and a new star, Maria Jeritza, introduced it at Manhattan's Metropolitan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Out of Water | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

...McKeller bill suggests a snowman that ends is usefulness with its creation. The bill proposes that the 30,000 Federal employees, with salaries over $4500 be appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. President Roosevelt has voiced his "unqualified opposition" to the measure which would "turn the clock back" on civil service reform and place a gigantic burden on the already overworked Chief Executive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Civil Disservice | 3/3/1943 | See Source »

...CORPSE IN THE SNOWMAN-Nicholas Blake-Harper ($2). A girl dies at an English house party that includes a trollop, a squire, an American wife, a rolling stone, a fribble, a quack. Detective Nigel Strangeways is baffled right up to the tantalizing conclusion. Grim and pathological, but a grand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder in October, Nov. 3, 1941 | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

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