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Goggled and greased, wearing Swimming: His means of expression tan-and-white bathing trunks and a white bathing cap, with K-rations strapped to his body and a compass strapped to his wrist, he jaunted down Carson's Beach, in South Boston, and plunged into the unusually rough waters of...

Author: By L.thomas Linden, | Title: A Little Fish in a Big Pond | 9/30/1955 | See Source »

The August sun beat down on the swarming crowds and the dusty trees along the Champs-Elysées. Never had the Folies-Bergère been more crowded. At the Louvre, tourists lined up in long, patient queues to stare at the Victory of Samothrace and the Mona Lisa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Paris Was Never Lovelier | 8/15/1955 | See Source »

Uniform of the Day. In Atlanta, State-Labor Commissioner Ben T. Huiet suggested that applicants for unemployment-benefit checks come fully dressed for job interviews instead of appearing in the shorts and bathing trunks that many of them favored.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 1, 1955 | 8/1/1955 | See Source »

Antiques & Poetry. A couple of producers dug into the trunks and brought forth some spectacular antiques. Audio Rarities offered Golden Age of the Theater ($5.95), a horror of prehistoric recording in which the voices of the great dead can occasionally be distinguished. Among them: Sarah Bernhardt, who sounds like a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Spoken Word | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

Behind him Dulles left his wife and secretary (both too exhausted after Manila to face another trip) and two disappointed hostesses (the wives of the Dutch and Norwegian ambassadors) who had been expecting him to dinner. With him he took a new relay of advisers-all European specialists-a change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Seraph of Foggy Bottom | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

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