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...line has grown so fast that it has little time or inclination for the frills U.S. airlines use to tempt passengers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Flying High in Spain | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

...hero in one scene, and another in another, but the whole man at every moment. Vienna-born Maria Schell, playing her third role in English, is just right as the young girl. She shows innocence, lustiness, angelic grace and moral crassness in just the proportions that might tempt a fellow of Scobie's age and situation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 13, 1954 | 12/13/1954 | See Source »

...When they arrive, he will have far and away the most potent air force of any Central American nation: the F51 was a hot plane in its day. But with deadly U.S. jets only 30 minutes away, Tacho may find that there is not money enough in Nicaragua to tempt any air soldier of fortune to risk combat in a World War II propeller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CENTRAL AMERICA: By the Dark of the Moon | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

...highest professional standing that he has an enviably deep knowledge of the purely Aramaic setting of the Gospel story. Nor has "Crank" Robert Graves yet been caught out in any historical blunder which invalidates his findings on the Graeco-Roman side of the problem; though he dared tempt British New Testament experts with valuable money prizes if they could spot one. Together they have even persuaded leading U.S. Protestant Theologian Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr to take the book seriously with: "The authors have labored so diligently and within the limits of their presuppositions so honestly, that the volume will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 23, 1954 | 8/23/1954 | See Source »

...books, 250 on cooking alone, both for the gourmet (Escoffier Cook Book) and the not-so-rich and not-so-particular (The Can-Opener Cookbook). Gardeners can pore over Perennials Preferred, Rockeries, Principles of Weed Control, animal lovers over such volumes as How to Tempt a Fish, How to Live with a Cat. There are dozens of books on How to Buy a House and how to make it better. There is even one on How to Make Sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: The Shoulder Trade | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

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