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SANE has long argued for a "workable" step-by-step disarmament and a "realistic" test-ban agreement-both controlled by an on-site inspection system. It has applauded President Kennedy's disarmament proposals (Cousins called last week's U.S. plan "imaginative, reasonable and responsible"). Says Executive Director Homer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: SANE--and Others | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

Kanin's hero (Tony Curtis) is a young sax maniac from Milwaukee who has come to Manhattan to blow the town down-he stands for Innocence. The heroine (Debbie Reynolds) is a hoofer who expected to wrap show business around her pretty little figure, but after two years of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 30, 1960 | 5/30/1960 | See Source »

Pollyanna (Walt Disney; Buena Vista), a novel for nice young ladies, published in 1913, by a refined New England novelist named Eleanor H. Porter, was an irresistible tearjerker that drenched the pillows of grandma's generation and added to the language a new word for the sort of softheaded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 9, 1960 | 5/9/1960 | See Source »

The Bird Charmer. Though the suicide was hushed up that afternoon to allow the New York Stock Exchange to close, the market opened the following Monday to a flood of "sell" orders on Kreuger stocks and bonds, to which hardheaded U.S. financiers and softheaded speculators alike had subscribed some $250...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: World's Greatest Swindler | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

Last week, in its place, he put out a new, 72-page monthly named World. With an expanded staff, Phillips hopes to abolish the "visionary" outlook of his old magazine, give as many as 150,000 readers (first printing: 82,000) solid information about international politics and business. The first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Brave New World | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

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