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...Blood's Coffin (Caralan; UA), another nasty trifle from Britain, is a skillful piece of suspense writing that might be described as a woman's horror picture-it's about a man who wants a woman's heart. When he can't get it, he takes somebody else's and transplants it into a corpse that-heh, heh-has some nasty ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Blood Pudding | 9/1/1961 | See Source »

...somebody must go after him. In Chamonix, sharp, energetic little Rene Payot, first Alpinist of France and chief instructor at the army's mountaineering school, put on his climbing clothes, greased his face well against the winds to come, rounded up 25 colleagues and announced simply, "On y ua [Let's go]." In St. Gervais, Louis Viallet, farmer and part-time guide, got on the telephone to call five friends. "When do we start?" was all they said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: On y Va | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

...private setting appropriate to one of the theatre's swankiest headliners. At various times she had lavish apartments or penthouses on or just off Fifth Avenue, and a London home with hundreds of mirrors and curtains of solid silver sequins. One of her London dressing rooms was described as ua corner of a dream." Through her salons moved such guests as Edward of Wales (who gave her his picture inscribed "To Gertrude?Edward P."); Manhattan Socialite Bertrand L. Taylor; Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (who gave her a 30-foot cabin cruiser); Peruvian Artist Reynaldo Luza; Adventure Writer Edgar Wallace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover Story: Gertie the Great | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

...black or yellow, the delegates (average age: about 25) set about saving the world with enthusiasm and organized cheering. Japan's delegates argued amiably with China's, the Socialists, not so amiably, with the Communists. A lone pro-fascist delegate from Eire. Seumas Ua hEamhthaigh (pronounced: Shamus O'Heavey), soon made himself at home. Youngest delegate was Spain's Margarita Robles, 14, oldest was East Africa's Ernest Kalibala, 38, born a bushman and now a school principal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Youth Congress | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

...defense of the Postoffice during Dublin's Easter rebellion in 1916. He speaks nothing but Gaelic whenever possible, refuses to live in the Viceregal Lodge in Phoenix Park, will wear no English clothes, sit on no English chair. He prefers to be known by his Gaelic name, Domnhall Ua Buachalla, but will answer to Donal, and insists that his office is not that of a Sassenach governor general, but a good Gaelic Seanascal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRISH FREE STATE: Seanascal Domnhall | 4/9/1934 | See Source »

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