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* With dialect lyrics by Armenian-American William Saroyan and a tricky harpsichord accompaniment.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Wholesome Type | 9/8/1952 | See Source »

Coco, like many a musical amateur, forgets how the songs go after the first phrases. The tricky grace note in the eighth bar of the drinking song from Traviata stops him every time; he pauses, squawks angrily, and switches to his favorite tune, Ciribiribin. Between arias, he amuses himself by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Psittacine Performer | 9/1/1952 | See Source »

As Carrie, Jennifer Jones seems to have stepped right out of the pages of the book: she is shallow and pleasure-loving, but cleverer and more imaginative than either of her lovers, both of whom she outgrows. In his first Hollywood movie since That Hamilton Woman (1941), Laurence Olivier is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 30, 1952 | 6/30/1952 | See Source »

Massage is tricky too, reported Chicago's Dr. Hugo R. Rony: in fact, massaging just the fat parts of the body may make those parts bigger. Surgery is dangerous. And exercise is hopeless: to take off one pound, said Dr. Ralph E. De Forest, a fat man would have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fat & Unhappy | 6/23/1952 | See Source »

¶ It is always a tricky technical problem to hold a patient in position for deep, high-power X-ray treatments, e.g., those used in cancer. In the past, uncomfortable plaster casts, straps and sandbags have been used. Now, thanks to cooperation between cancer experts and a geologist, Manhattan'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Jun. 16, 1952 | 6/16/1952 | See Source »

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