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...that check up . . .' " Concluded Columnist Parker: "As I looked back at the healthy specimen I saw waving a fond adieu, I impulsively exclaimed: 'What a built...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: What a Built! | 1/25/1954 | See Source »

...revealed enough secrets to compensate for the $100,000 it cost, but the Air Force rushed a team of test pilots and engineers to examine it and test its performance in the air. Though the Air Force had studied several MIGs part by part, this one was the first specimen in shape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: You Kill Us | 10/5/1953 | See Source »

...TIME, July 20, we read: "Author [Bertrand] Russell uses live bait and barbed hooks, tickles out many a specimen of his lifelong enemies in suburbia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 17, 1953 | 8/17/1953 | See Source »

...backstage-to show business. But for all its opulent and glossy devotion, it pretty much lets show business down. It has its decided good points. But as an insight into show business, it is merely glib, goes constantly behind the scenes and never below the surface. As an actual specimen of show business, it mistakes a lot of whirling motion for excitement, and trick technique for originality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Jun. 8, 1953 | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

...exercises, headstands and one-legged squatting exercises. The body was by then sufficiently limbered up for a "ten-mile jog trot." Mary was excused from some of the more rigorous exercises when she was pregnant, so she could sometimes lie abed watching her husband. Physically, he was a striking specimen. His perfectly muscled body was only 5 ft. 6 in. high, his visage was stern, beaked and remorseless, his eyes of a peculiar hazel which became somberly multicolored in moments of passion. His teeth were none too good-per haps because he believed that the cure for toothache...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Life with a Genius | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

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