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Frightened, Cheryl fled to the kitchen, headed for her mother's room with a knife. "I walked toward the bedroom door," said Lana. "He was right behind me. And I opened it and my daughter came in. I swear it was so fast, I truthfully thought she had hit him in the stomach ... I never saw a blade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: The Bad & the Beautiful | 4/21/1958 | See Source »

...four delegates flew to Nice-but the next thing France knew, they had flown via Switzerland to Egypt to confer with France's archenemy. President Nasser. Last week, having dropped out of sight for 2% months, they arrived in Morocco to swear allegiance to Mohammed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sons of the Same Country | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

...handsome young English lover named Eliot, who takes the children for rides in his blue-and-silver Rolls-Royce. Young Paul, the pension dishwasher, supplies the little Englishmen with assorted forbidden fruits-Gauloise cigarettes, wine dregs left in the glasses after a big luncheon, a rich vocabulary of French swear words. Poor, darling Mummy is still in the hospital-hurrah, hurrah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Worm in the Apple | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

...press box contend that he is a ham who hates to leave the grandstand. And it is a heart-stopping fact to bettors that he begins to run again only when he rounds the stretch turn and heads for the crowd again. Says Co-Owner Tom Ross: "I swear, he counts the house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Out of Bunyan by Runyon | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

...disown Djakarta. Possible reasons: his region is heavily settled by migrant Javanese who in recent municipal elections gave one-third of their votes to the Communists; one of his four battalions is made up of Javanese troops. To underline his neutrality he last week had his officers and men swear allegiance only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: Djago, the Rooster | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

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