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...chanteuse Diane, however, Miss Miss DeHaven reveals only a rather light voice which requires amplification, while Montalban, cast in the role of Chico the sewer-cleaner, is content to speak rather than sing his lyrics. Neither gets much help from the loudspeaker system, which has a tendency to squeal at inopportune moments. That defect, I am afraid, is the only thing which can be improved before Seventh Heaven opens on Broadway...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: "Seventh Heaven" | 5/18/1955 | See Source »

...Giants," is apparently an attempt to decide the heavyweight championship of Hollywood. In one corner stands Burt Lancaster, congenital desperado, and in the other Gary Cooper, Southern gentle man dispossessed by the Civil War. The rough stuff gets under way somewhere south of the border, around 1866. Bullets squeal, gun butts crunch, death screams gurgle, bombs go bam! And when a man is all tuckered out, some señorita is like as not to come slinking up with a rose in her teeth and a pigsticker in her rebozo. Actor Lancaster (a co-producer of the movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 10, 1955 | 1/10/1955 | See Source »

...together than in the utmost respectability apart. Throughout the evening, they offer slightly grander and more empedestaled versions of their time-honored selves; and by now, indeed, Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt are much less actors than roles. Now, once again, they manifest their uniqueness. She provides a heraldic squeal or purr; he drops to a sudden flawless guttural pianissimo; each not merely throws away a line, but throws it, with a double backward flip, over an exiting left shoulder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Nov. 15, 1954 | 11/15/1954 | See Source »

...then beckons the proprietor. "I'm awfully sorry," he murmurs casually, "but I don't have anything smaller." It works. It works again with an expensive tailor and again at a fashionable club. Reporters rush to interview the "vest-pocket millionaire." Heiresses of ancient lineage come to squeal like pigs in clover and an old friend shows up with a "sure thing"-a gold mine guaranteed to make millions later for thousands now. It all moves along amusingly-until the hero discovers that he has lost his million-pound note...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 31, 1954 | 5/31/1954 | See Source »

...Squeal Tire. An automobile tire that neither hums nor squeals on turns has been developed by the U.S. Rubber Co. The U.S. Royal 8 has an almost rectangular "footprint" that keeps an extra amount of rubber on the road, and its tread design is reversed, with the narrowest ribs at the outer edge. The tire, say U.S. Rubber officials, will also give 25% more mileage. Price: about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, may 17, 1954 | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

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