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Here, again, the storm-tossed mariner comes staggering through the surf to begin his 28 years of bitter exile on a desert island. At first, Crusoe rejoices in survival itself, then in the happy rescue of guns and supplies from his ship, wrecked on a nearby reef. With the ship's dog and cat, with a home abuilding and goats to tend, the castaway seems secure in his growing self-sufficiency. But fever comes, and he is finally racked by the even greater terrors of loneliness. Director Bunuel and Actor O'Herlihy are particularly fine in picturing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 24, 1954 | 5/24/1954 | See Source »

...dark or fog and measure the distance to nearby objects. Its noise generator can be used as a foghorn; its amplifier and speaker can be used as a powerful bullhorn for talking with neighboring craft; its speaker can also serve as a sensitive microphone, picking up the sound of surf or bell buoys for the helmsman. Price: about...

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

...collected $32,250, the chief item being $20,865 for "entertaining, luncheons, dinners, etc." Kingsley's listed expenses included $2,746 for "beverages and provisions" for a penthouse on Miami's swank Ponce de Leon Hotel and $1,290 for membership and fees to the equally plush Surf Club in Miami Beach. The Norfolk Southern also paid out $7,200 for trips of officials and their guests to the Kentucky Derby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Overloaded | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

...beach of Leyte just south of Tacloban, U.S. landing barges rust in the surf. A monument near by proclaims proudly that here in 1944, General Douglas MacArthur and the Americans landed to restore the Four Freedoms to the Philippine Islands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: The People's Choice | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

...those rounds, Marciano appeared awkward, which he is. It may be his short arms that give him this uncoordinated look. Marciano edges into an opponent like an old man wading into ice cold surf. He lunges at his man and he misses often. Once the force of his own swing made him slip to the canvas...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 9/28/1953 | See Source »

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