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Late in the fall, he started down the Pan American Highway in a jeep with four other Americans, among them Katherine Wallis, whom MaCoy married the next year, and her mother. When the highway became impassable, MaCoy wanted to go on, but the others didn't. The others got...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Feb. 4, 1952 | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

Red Mountain (Hal Wallis; Paramount) harks back to the most persistent historic figure in recent horse opera: General William Clarke Quantrell, the Rebel guerrilla. This time, in Technicolor, Alan Ladd foils the greedy designs that the script lays to Quantrell: a scheme for carving out his own empire in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Three of a Kind | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

Peking Express (Hal Wallis; Paramount) sets out on a topical excursion into Communist China, but quickly turns into a typical train-borne melodrama, running on the same tracks as 1932's Shanghai Express. For all its world-shaking airs and its batting around of ideological platitudes, the picture carries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 8/20/1951 | See Source »

¶ Walter P. Chrysler (1928), Owen D. Young (1929), Pierre Laval (1931), Hitler (1938). Other readers were stumped by Hugh Johnson (1933), Haile Selassie (1935) and Wallis Simpson (1936).-ED.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 5, 1951 | 2/5/1951 | See Source »

The Duchess of Windsor wrapped up and sent off her much-copied 1937 "Wallis Blue" wedding gown to be a part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's costume institute.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Dec. 25, 1950 | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

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