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...thing the Italians have to Terry Moore. Born in Tripoli, North Africa, she wanted to be a doctor until she was discovered by a movieman in a swimming pool four years ago. Since then she has made 16 pictures. She was signed for the title role in Helen of Troy, but her acting did not measure up to her looks. After she blew her lines in 36 takes of a singfe scene, the picture was changed from a love story to a spectacle, in order (the word went around) to get more excitement and less Rossana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hollywood on the Tiber | 8/16/1954 | See Source »

...didn't want it to broaden under the bright, flat light"); shaded her cheeks to "minimize the puffiness" and darkened her neck so that "if she keeps her head up the folks won't see her double chin." Tastefully dressed in simple Sally Victor hats and Hannah Troy dresses ("We figure they won't be obsolete for five years," explains Producer Walter Colmes), Amy appears on the screen in a set modeled after her own living room. As she speaks in her mannerly, well-modulated voice, the camera picks up actors demonstrating the right and wrong ways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Best of Taste | 7/5/1954 | See Source »

...Troy, N.Y., members of Russell Sage College's Class of '49 made amends to the world's spryest primitive painter, Grandma Moses, 93. Grandma had got an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the girls' school in 1949. Her cap and gown were lent to her for the occasion, and recently Grandma complained in TIME (Dec. 28): "They didn't let me keep the cap." After reading TIME'S story, the Sage girls got busy and arranged for Grandma to come to their fifth reunion, where she was pictured admiring her appearance topped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 14, 1954 | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

Jayvee 150's: Eric Oddleifson, Stroke; Tim Gray, 7; Bill Lindenmuller, 6; John Lizars, 5; Bruce Dixon, 4; Bill Lawrence, 3; Troy Brown, 2; Frank Maybank, Bow; Tad Palys...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Six Crimson Crews Race B.U., M.I.T. Before Weekend Crowds on Charles | 4/24/1954 | See Source »

JOSEPH A. PARKER Troy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 22, 1954 | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

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