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...Biff! Bang! Wallop!" In search of a hero for his sensational novel of the 19205, Montparnos, which established the claim of Montparnasse as a rip-roaring Bohemia to rival the prewar Montmartre, M.G.M. uncovered such unknowns as Amedeo Modigliani and Utrillo, recounts how on their first meeting the two great painters exchanged coats as a token of mutual admiration. Then one said: "You are the world's greatest painter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Man Who Knew All | 6/17/1957 | See Source »

...world's greatest-Reports M. G.-M.: "Biff! Bang! And the fight started. They made it up in a nearby bistro. There they consumed a large number of bottles of wine, and exchanged coats several more times . . . Biff! Bang! Wallop! And they were at it again, landing up in the gutter, where they went to sleep, and woke up at dawn to find that they had been robbed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Man Who Knew All | 6/17/1957 | See Source »

Slow Strangulation. He put a wallop into his delivery, clenched his left hand into a veiny fist as he warned that without U.S. military aid, free countries bordering on the Communist world would, under Communist pressures, "suffer a slow strangulation quite as fateful as sudden aggression." Going it alone without the mutual-security program, he said, the U.S. would need to step up its draft calls and spend billions more for arms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Responsibility Regained | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

...guided missile Corporal; the vast, complicated network of control panels and radar screens and radio beams that will aim and fire the supersonic Corporal at an enemy perhaps 200 miles away; the surprisingly agile 30-ton missile-carrying trucks; the truck-bed cranes called "cherry pickers" and the devastating wallop itself: atomic warheads. Today's army, SETAF is armed and ready for tomorrow's atomic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Fair Verona: 1957 | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

...into the painstakingly mapped passes and defiles of the nearby Alps with astonishing mobility. With the 200,000-man NATO-commanded Italian army moving in to drive an oncoming enemy into a pocket, SETAF efficiently unlimbers its cranes, trucks and crews, loads its rockets and missiles, releases its wallop with discriminating accuracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Fair Verona: 1957 | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

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