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...memory of every steel producer is a 1959 Reynolds Metals- Co. radio commercial in which two loathsome characters named Rusty and Salty set out to feast on steel auto accessories but were frustrated by "rust-free aluminum" ("I'm having a bad time, Salty. This side trim is aluminum"). Setting out to do likewise, Great Lakes Steel has recently sponsored commercials in which "Lulu La Lumium," a Tallulah-voiced aluminum bumper, is constantly banged and bent by a steel bumper with a strong masculine voice. Sample dialogue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Metals: The Perils of Lulu | 5/19/1961 | See Source »

...quickness and fluidity on the ground or in midair, to project emotion with vivid movements of arms, legs and body. But Bruhn long ago became aware that "technique is not enough," and he is remarkable for the feeling of tension he can convey by his mere presence. Poised and trim (5 ft. 7_in., 140 Ibs.), he somehow rivets an audience with the promise of action before he has danced a step...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Danseur Noble | 5/5/1961 | See Source »

...Jean Kerr's play is much more than a catalogue of one-line gags. The best laughs of Mary, Mary arise from character and substance; simple lines that are meaningless out of context ricochet around the stage and find their targets unerringly beyond the footlights. She knows how to trim her themes in light blue; but her humor is always basically decent?and universal. The man in Mary, Mary was, after all, married to the woman whose shoulder he sometimes tapped at 11p.m. saying: "Are you in the mood tonight? Because if you're not, I'm going to take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: BROADWAY | 4/14/1961 | See Source »

...ambush was as sudden as it was effective. Driver Jim Buntin had just dropped his third fare of the morning at Knightsbridge. when he received radio orders to go to Belgrave Square. As he swung his trim, tiny black-and-white Fiat Multipla into the square with its swank, yellow-white Regency houses, the enemy struck. "Baker four, I'm in trouble!" Buntin shouted over his intercom as a flotilla of tall, black, box-shaped London taxis bore down on him, their "For Hire" flags raised high, their exhaust pipes billowing clouds of diesel smoke, their cabbies shaking irate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: The Battle of Belgrave Square | 4/7/1961 | See Source »

...Mercedes-Benz's new 220 SE hardtop coupe with a hand-buffed walnut interior trim, and a 134-h.p. fuel-injection engine. Top speed: 105 m.p.h. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: Compacts v. the World | 4/7/1961 | See Source »

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