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When death put an end to his indecision in 1917, nearly 150 uncast statues were found in his studio, half of them already broken. The rest were sent to the Hébrard Foundry to be cast after World War I. Twenty-two bronzes were made of each figure, but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Degas in Wax | 11/21/1955 | See Source »

The wet snow was a poor background for the game, but a group of energetic Yalies from Berkeley and Calhoun Colleges gave a very entertaining, if not varsity-like, football performance this morning on the wide green between the Colleges. Not content with the orthodox football uniforms, these players adorned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bad Weather, High Spirits Mark Pre-Game Festivities | 11/19/1955 | See Source »

At the same time, Feinberg started reaching out for other well-known lines, e.g., Catalina swimwear (which claims to be the world's biggest swimsuit maker), Fruit of the Loom hosiery. Last week, still pulling itself up by the garters, Kayser agreed to pay $13 million for Milwaukee'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Going Steady | 8/29/1955 | See Source »

Welles is producer and director as well as starring actor. He shot his film in Venice and in French Morocco, where the frowning battlements of an 18th century Arab citadel at Mogador serve beautifully for the exterior scenes supposedly laid in Cyprus. Everything is done with great bravura style, from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 6, 1955 | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

Almost every morning for the last 22 years, a self-effacing little man, careless-clad in baggy pants and a blue stocking cap, stepped down from the front porch of a modest frame house at 112 Mercer Street, Princeton, N.J., and trudged off to the Institute for Advanced Studies. At...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Death of a Genius | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

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