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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Third Day shows the grey dawn of the first landscape, with the first signs of life emerging from primordial chaos. Says Kovarsky: "This tree has the twist of a motherly woman. The cloud is the symbol of rain. The red seed, poppy seed, is a symbol of growth. The sun-light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: BIRTH OF THE WORLD | 3/25/1957 | See Source »

Frightened by the uproar, Fenton had meanwhile buried the jewels beneath a palm tree on a lonely beach. Questioned, he claimed steadfastly that he had hardly known the vacationers, said that as far as he remembered Mrs. Hallock had never displayed any jewelry more flamboyant than a trivial topaz ring. As Mrs. Hoffman tore Fenton's story to shreds, police grilled Waiter Rios, whose share of the loot had been only $200 in cash. Rios admitted that Fenton had hired him to help rob the couple. On the 17th day Fenton lost his nerve; news had arrived that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Guided Tour | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

...cannot get long-term loans through normal bank channels. "What we're looking for," says one Prudential executive, "is the nice little company making a nice little product in Bucyrus, Ohio." The Pru has found plenty of them. Among the loans: $200,000 to help reforest a Florida tree farm, $750,000 to a Nashville religious-book company, $54,000 to Kansas City's Papec Machine Co., makers of agricultural appliances, another $120,000 to six El Dorado (Ark.) doctors who convinced the Pru that their town needed a medical center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INSURANCE: Chip off the Old Rock | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

Patience and Prudence Mclntyre, 14 and 11 years old respectively, are just like most girls their age except that they have a daddy who is a pianist-songwriter (The Money Tree) and full of bright ideas. One day Daddy-Mark Mclntyre-took them over to a recording studio and played his arrangement of the old Lee David-Billy Rose heart-thumper, Tonight You Belong to Me, while the girls cut a record as a birthday gift for Grandmother. When a musical friend of the family heard the record, "she flipped," and when Daddy submitted the disk to Liberty Records, President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: P.&P. | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

However their success came about, Patience and Prudence are sitting pretty under the money tree, will gross some $100,000 this year on records alone (Liberty Records, which zoomed into the big time on the unexpected success of Julie London's Cry Me a River, is looking to the sisters for a big share of its 1957 profits). Mclntyre has turned down Las Vegas, movie and TV offers for the girls-except for one from Perry Como. Rumors were about that P. & P. were grown women whose voices had been trick-recorded, and Daddy wanted to show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: P.&P. | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

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