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...Soldiers in the Aleutians voted her the girl most likely to thaw out Alaska...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz | 10/27/1952 | See Source »

Says Director Henry Hathaway: "She can make any move, any gesture, almost insufferably suggestive." She currently gets more than 5,000 letters a week from smitten admirers. Soldiers in the Aleutians voted her "the girl most likely to thaw out Alaska." A whole U.S. battalion in Korea recently volunteered to marry her. Students of the 7th Division Medical Corps unanimously elected her the girl they would most like to examine. Neighborhood theaters now showing movies in which she plays supporting parts (e.g., Clash by Night") give Marilyn Monroe top billing on the marquees over such well-established stars as Barbara...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Something for the Boys | 8/11/1952 | See Source »

...exhausting scramble. Dry snow, fine as sand, and rock, crumbled by the unending freeze-and-thaw, gave no firm foothold. But at 11:55 a.m., sucking at the thin, cold air, they were at the center of the long, narrow summit, where they planted a Peruvian flag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERU: Conquest of a Mountain | 7/28/1952 | See Source »

...explained that whenever there is a period of rapid thaw after a cold spell, the growths, which look like a green slime on the surface of the water, multiply at a tremendous rate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harmless Green Algae Tinges Local Waters | 4/9/1952 | See Source »

...Panmunjom last week, the frozen furrows of the millet field around the truce talks tent softened to the first thaw of the new year. The cold features of North Korea's General Nam II were also a degree or two warmer. For the first time since the resumption of the truce talks last fall, the Communist negotiator brought along with him, in his shiny black Chrysler, a proposition that seemed to offer an acceptable formula on an important issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CEASE-FIRE: Et Cetera | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

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