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...years in London and four in Paris, rolled four triumphant times ('39, '40, '48, '54) around the U.S. movie circuits, has been dubbed in five languages and subtitled in 30 others, has pulled 120 million customers through the turnstiles and put $125 million in the till. "Never," brags an M-G-M pressagent, "have so many paid so much to see so much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Scarlett Fever (1939-1961) | 5/5/1961 | See Source »

...described by one British observer as "the completest tyrant God ever made. I had rather be a post horse than his first Minister, or his brother, or his wife." The age worshiped good sense, yet "the High Priest of Reason," Dr. Johnson, would scrape his knuckles with a penknife till they were raw, and insisted on touching every post when walking down a street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An Age of Characters | 5/5/1961 | See Source »

...projector. Reduced to less than 200 calories a day, Warsaw's Jews shrivel up to skin and bone, huddle 13 to a room, lie covered with ghastly sores on beds of rags, fall dead by the hundreds on the streets every day. The corpses lie covered with flies till the corpse crews find them, fling them on carts, dump them down a chute into a mass grave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Film to Endure | 4/28/1961 | See Source »

...campaign of vilification" against management. "Who are you trying to fool, Mr. Colbert?" asked Horvath. "You've got your head in the sand and your flanks exposed to attack. You do all your planning with one hand on the panic button and the other in the till." Countered Colbert: "Chrysler has no problem that increased sales wouldn't cure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bad Day for Tex | 4/28/1961 | See Source »

...complaint of the Gen Ed courses that they must now further compress already-crowded course schedules to cover the material under their rubrics. Where this proves impossible or detrimental, the optional wording of the Faculty's decision can be invoked, and the course can elect to run straight through till exams--as in fact many upper-level courses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Breathing Space | 4/13/1961 | See Source »

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