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...African side, the captain quick-changes into dove-grey flannels and a snap-brim felt, darts to a waiting taxi and heads, by way of the flower shop, for a glassily sinful flat in one of the tonier hotels. There he is passionately greeted by wife No. 2, a sexy, black-haired baggage (Yvonne de Carlo) who throws the cootch around in nightclubs, guzzles champagne, and takes moonlight plunges in the Mediterranean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 12, 1953 | 10/12/1953 | See Source »

...products. We will even venture a prediction that the bewildered freshmen will sleep more soundly this year, secure in the knowledge that, "the Harvard Typewriter Exchange is prepared to meet emergencies," all her Christmas shopping "is easily accomplished at the Upper Story on Church street," and that the Ambassador Taxi Company is waiting to relieve the travelling inconveniences of the underground transit. Unfortunately, we're old fashioned and still prefer to see readable copy at the beginning, and advertisements at the end. SO couldn't the editors of the Radcliffe Yearbook have had some consideration for the curious Harvard student...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POX ON THE HUCKSTERS | 10/7/1953 | See Source »

Last Tuesday evening, a taxi pulled up to the curb in front of the CRIMSON Building with Myrua Hansen Miss United States and runner-up to Miss Universc. Miss Brannon, Universal-International Studios press agent and travelling companion to Myrna, stepped out and told the driver to wait. He waited for two hours...

Author: By David Royce, | Title: You Oughta Be in Pictures | 10/2/1953 | See Source »

...tiptoed down the fire stairs to the ninth floor, then took an elevator to the lobby. He left the hotel, went to the phone booth in an all-night restaurant nearby and dialed a Manhattan number. After a short conversation in Polish, he left the restaurant and hailed a taxi. In this manner, Dr. Marek Korowicz, 50, professor of international law at Cracow University and the top legal adviser to the delegation, made his way out from behind the Iron Curtain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFUGEES: Free Man in Manhattan | 9/28/1953 | See Source »

...Mirror (circ. 902,000) went to work to keep its summer circulation up by paying $25 to $1,000 every day for "Lucky Bucks" (dollar bills which have the same serial number as those printed in the paper-TIME, Aug. 17). Within a week, everyone from bank presidents to taxi drivers as far away as Florida and California was riffling through his dollar bills looking for Lucky Bucks. Manhattan's tabloid Daily News, biggest daily in the U.S. (circ. 2,200,000), eyed the Mirror's stunt coldly. But this week the News, which never admits to following...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Lucky Buck v. Bonanza Bill | 9/21/1953 | See Source »

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