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...might have been thought that Truman & Co.'s Bureau of Internal Revenue had been mined out as a source of high-grade show material. But last week a House Ways & Means Subcommittee headed by New Jersey's Robert W. Kean stuck an investigative spade into the same rich lode and dug up not only a fresh scandal but a new feature character...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Appearance of Evil | 8/17/1953 | See Source »

...well as Linda on the move. A rivet-eyed, onetime prelim fighter from the Pennsylvania coal country, Palance (né Palahnuik) gave terrifying performances in Shane and Sudden Fear, has since become the hottest heavy in Hollywood. His face alone, as thin and cruel as a rust-pitted spade, is enough to-frighten a strong man; and to make matters worse, he seems to emit hostile energy, like something left overnight in a plutonium pile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 27, 1953 | 7/27/1953 | See Source »

...display this week at Richmond's Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the eggs are the work of an intense, spade-bearded jeweler named Peter Carl Fabergé (1846-1920). Starting out in his father's small shop in St. Petersburg as a young apprentice, Fabergé became court jeweler to Alexander III and Nicholas II, and the most sought after goldsmith of his time. Russia's Easter eggs are his proudest creation. Fabergé turned out his first as a surprise for Alexander III's Czarina. At a glance, it seemed to be a plain chicken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: EGGS A LA RUSSE | 4/6/1953 | See Source »

...trouble ... I'm never happy over anybody's physical breakdown." Much more typical was a Chicago restaurateur who put a black wreath in his window, with a sign below reading: "Joe's gone. Vodka on the house." The New York Daily News, as usual, called a spade a meat-ax: "Jailbird son of a drunken cobbler . . . in essence, a backwoods plug-ugly and killer." Less crudely, but no less clear in its condemnation, the New York Times said: "Our children's children will still be paying the price for the evil which he brought into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Kremlin Stands | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

...night they will sleep in the town under protection of a strong Viet Nam militia. The plans for Dong Quan include a Christian church, a Buddhist temple, a rice granary, cooperatives, a hospital, schools, markets, a sports field, river quays, a business and handicrafts district. As the first spade of earth was turned at Dong Quan, the Communists attacked. Said untroubled Governor Tri last week: "It proves that this project hurts them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDO-CHINA: Protected Village | 3/2/1953 | See Source »

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