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...Burgess and Maclean share a continuing problem: alcoholism. Last summer, when Maclean went on an extended drinking bout that ended in delirium tremens, his wife nursed him back to health, but told friends she was fed up and was considering leaving him. Since then, Maclean has been on the wagon, and both he and his wife deny any rumors of separation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: At Home with the Frazers | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

...Samsonite luggage is the first luggage made of magnesium." There was the "Underwood portable with the golden touch," HIS and HERS golf bags (Shirl: "I promise to lose"), "famous carpets from the looms of Mohawk," a poodle from a "famed" Peekskill kennel, then Keenan Wynn in a scene from Wagon Train. "Do I turn my back on the camera?" asked Actress Shirl incredulously as she mounted the "staircase" to toss her bouquet. It was caught by a boy. Bride and Groom is going off the air this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

...path of a people in flight, refugees from dust and shrinking land . . . they come into 66 from the tributary side roads, from the wagon tracks and the rutted country roads. 66 is the mother road, the road of flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: The Harvesters | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

...morning in 1918 he turned his wide back on the moderns. "I was just coming out of a cubist show," he said later, "when a fruit vendor passed in front of me in the sunshine, pushing a little wagon full of peaches. The sight was so much more beautiful than all those dry, thin abstractions inside the gallery. It made me want to paint the richness we can see and feel." He went to Italy, where the Renaissance had spread its richness across acres of church and palace walls. Inspired by Giotto, Uccello and Andrea del Castagno, he resolved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Exit a Giant | 12/9/1957 | See Source »

...hastily-summoned paddy-wagon did not, however, arrive on the scene for another ten minutes, and Rev. Pugh was able to continue his exhortations, with increased vigor, from the middle of the street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Evangelists Halt Traffic in Square; Leader and 12 Followers Arrested | 12/9/1957 | See Source »

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