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...began rising in tHe gorge, the agitators took a different tack, began selling magic tickets to the villagers that guaranteed that the "white man's wall" would be overthrown by the most potent god in Batonga mythology: the mighty Snake of the Zambesi, whose whiskers are the spray of Victoria Falls and whose tail stretches 250 miles to the Kariba gorge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CENTRAL AFRICA: A Better Mousetrap | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

...capital punishment? Possibly. But the script spends no sympathy on the two men convicted as the heroine's accomplices, who meet the same fate as she does. Well then, what is it? To judge from the far-out photography, real desperate sound track, and dragsville dialogue that Krylon-spray the whole film with a cheap glaze of don't-care-if-I-do-die juvenility, Producer Walter Wanger seems less concerned to assist the triumph of justice than to provide the morbid market with a sure-enough gasser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 24, 1958 | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

...eighth of nine children of a poor tenant tobacco farmer, Hodges started working as a twelve-year-old hand in Marshall Field & Co.'s Fieldcrest mill at Spray, N.C., worked his way through the University of North Carolina ('19), then went back to the Spray mill. He rose rapidly, became vice president of Marshall Field in 1943, and in 1950 he retired, at 52, to devote the rest of his life to public service. He served a year as industrial chief of the U.S. Economic Cooperation Administration in Germany. In 1952, unwanted and unsupported by the state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: How to Woo New Businesses | 10/20/1958 | See Source »

...sleek bow awash with silver spray, Columbia slipped across the finish line a mile and a quarter or 8 minutes, 20 seconds ahead of the broad-breasted challenger...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Columbia Beats Sceptre by Mile To Take 3-0 Lead in Cup Races | 9/26/1958 | See Source »

...reason the beauty industry has failed to get U.S. women to buy more perfume is obvious: she takes a scented bath, puts on lipstick, cream, powder, deodorant, hair spray, hand lotion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 7, 1958 | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

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