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...proud dairy country of Normandy, there were other dairymen, jealous perhaps, who cast a suspicious eye on Kramer's skill and Marie's prowess. They studied his methods carefully. One day last week they sent four village gendarmes to surround Marie's pasture. As Kurt started milking, the gendarmes burst from the bushes and shouted. "Hands up!" They had caught...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sour Cream | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

...reconsideration provides for a 30-day trial period involving selected streets, three of which surround Winthrop and Leverett Houses, and is scheduled for an ordinance meeting within two weeks...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: Citizens Plan End of Illegal Night Parking | 4/26/1955 | See Source »

...does everything he can to keep out of print. But last week there was print without stint: there had been a revolt against the Imam of Yemen. Tough Iraq-trained Colonel Ahmed Thalaya, mindful of army coups in nearby Egypt and Syria, persuaded a bunch of soldiers to surround the royal palace of Al Urdhi at Taiz, a fortified stronghold where the Imam lives with his harem, the royal treasure, an arsenal of modern weapons, and a 150-man guard. From the palace window came a shout: "What is it you want? Tell me what you want," cried the sexagenarian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YEMEN: Revolt & Revenge | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

...seen scores of teachers take to show business like ducks to water. Five professors, after mumbling their way through TV scripts, headed straight for courses in speech. Dr. Maurice Sullivan, Johns Hopkins dermatologist, soon caught on to the fact that the best way to talk about sunburn was to surround himself with a bevy of bathing beauties. Dr. Heinz Haber, an expert in space medicine at U.C.L.A., is another case in point: three years ago, when Haber appeared on a Hopkins series, he had only watched TV twice, had never stood before a camera. He did an adequate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Wide, Wide World | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

Tuesday will be Museum day for WGBH-TV, and Museum and University scholars will describe the history, sociology and traditions which surround each masterpiece. Artists will supplement slides and motion pictures in demonstrating the techniques under study; when Chinese brush paintings are on exhibition a Chinese scholar might demonstrate the rapid stroking used in their creation. Dooley accounts for the astonishing TV enthusiasm of even the stuffiest scholars as "latent ham bursting forth...

Author: By Robert A. Fish, | Title: WGBH: A Station for Special Publics Develops an Eye as Well as an Ear | 2/2/1955 | See Source »

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