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...into the surreal terrors of organization headquarters and carefully builds toward the film's screaming-meemie climax, sparing nothing but an anesthetic. Seconds has moments, and that's too bad, in a way. But for its soft and flabby midsection, it might have been one of the trimmest shockers of the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Identity Crisis | 10/14/1966 | See Source »

Stars & Brainflashes. Paley has had his flops. The CBS color TV system, for instance, because it could not be received on black and white sets lost out to RCA. But that is behind him. He found the ideal right-hand man in Stanton, who has streamlined CBS into the trimmest organization in broadcasting. It was Stanton who separated the company into its present divisions and who runs the day-to-day business. "In the creative end," Stanton says, "I would never make a major decision without involving Paley, but I seldom bother him about housekeeping functions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Mr. CBS | 1/31/1964 | See Source »

Long Thought. Certainly the trimmest ankle of the lot is turned by Bridges' widow, Doloris, 46. She promises that she will carry on her husband's strong conservatism. "This is your money," she tells the ladies at coffees, teas and club dates, as she hits President Kennedy and his foreign policy. "This [U.N. money] is your money, not his private fortune, which is going to Poland, Yugoslavia, and India, which has consistently voted against us, and-hold your breath, girls-to Cuba!" She often invokes Styles's shade. "I thought about this a long time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: After Styles | 8/31/1962 | See Source »

Rivermen have a saying that Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle harbor-where the Monongahela and Allegheny Rivers meet to form the Ohio-is "great for towboats but hell on showboats." It was hell last week on one of the biggest, whitest and trimmest of U.S. inland excursion steamers, the Island Queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: Hell at the Dock | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

...been the ownership of the Press and News. For the Press passed, in 1911, into the hands of able, blunt Judge Lynn John Arnold, who published it for the Clark family (Singer Sewing Machines) of Cooperstown. Young, rich Stephen Carlton Clark had married Susan Hun, descendant of brownest, trimmest Albany ancestors. Many a cousin, many an inlaw, would write indignantly to Owner Stephen when the Press, and later the News, failed to be brown and trim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Libel | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

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