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Hollywood snickered. "Act?" sneered one of Marilyn's directors. "That blonde can't act her way out of a Whirlpool bra." Cocktail parties were convulsed with the news that Marilyn was holed up in Manhattan with the entire Modern Library, and had sworn she would not unlock the door until she was cultured. The rumors began to get wilder. Marilyn had been admitted to the Actors Studio, and was studying the deep-dish Stanislavsky Method. She wanted to play Grushenka in Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: To Aristophanes & Back | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

Taking this knowledge into the laboratory, a team of Air Force scientists led by Dr. Murray Zelikoff proved that small additions of nitric oxide can quickly unlock the energy stored in atomized oxygen. To test their conclusions on the atmospheric scale, they loaded steel cylinders containing 20 Ibs. of nitric oxide into the Aerobee, which triggered Holloman's celestial show at the 60-mile level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sixty-Mile Flare | 4/2/1956 | See Source »

...Hollywood's older, more sought-after men have concluded, from time to time, that they were just the boys destined to discover and unlock the real Grace. Each time, Grace has resisted unlocking, though whenever her father reads in a column of a new "roman tic attachment," the family gets alarmed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Girl in White Gloves | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

...those new forms," Adenauer means the European Defense Community. The idea came, providentially, from France. Germans could not propose it without risking the impression that it was simply a cunning maneuver to unlock the occupation shackles and revive the Wehrmacht. But when the enemy from across the Rhine proposed it in 1950, Konrad Adenauer could more easily champion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MAN OF THE YEAR: We Belong to the West | 1/4/1954 | See Source »

I.G.A. offers a member so many services, says Grimes, that "all the grocer has to do is unlock the front door and exercise his gifts as a salesman, a likable guy and a square businessman." Says successful Grocer Garofalo: "I've got supervision and store planning and help. I'm a happy man. I'm thinkin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: The Independents | 9/21/1953 | See Source »

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