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...acting remains irresistible. Clark Gable's appeal is eternal--witness the admiring gasps at his first on-screen appearance. He is the supremely confident male, the ultimate proof of his virility coming not in he-man scenes but at the moment when, talking baby-talk to his week-old daughter, he projects the ineffable tenderness of a proud and strong father. The breathtaking bravura of his proposal scene to Vivien Leigh sweeps not only the lady off her feet but the whole audience as well...

Author: By Stephen Kaplan, | Title: Gone With The Wind | 12/6/1967 | See Source »

...Divinity students, have been given the money to work under the Rev. Harold R. Fraye, Chairman of the Massachusetts branch of the Clergymen Concerned about the War and pastor of the Eliot Church in Newton. They will help him to organize local elergy anti-war activities. Cupples initiated the week-old project and asked Fraye to join him because, Cupples said, "he is the most politically active clergyman" on Vietnam in Greater Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seminarians Paid to Fight War | 10/25/1967 | See Source »

...Corris didn't quite match his performance against Princeton in the 200-yard breaststroke. He glided past the 100-yard mark in 1:05.8, 1.3 seconds slower than he did when l et his record last weekend, but finished strong in 2:16.9, only .2 seconds off his week-old record...

Author: By John A. Herfort, | Title: Swimmers Beat Columbia 60-35, Ready for Yale | 2/28/1966 | See Source »

Whether Quat's charges were true or not, one thing was sadly certain: the coup attempt and mass arrests shattered the fragile filigree of stability that had marked Quat's 14-week-old civilian regime and ended the restless truce between South Viet Nam's warring Buddhists and Catholics. Quat was forced to postpone the Cabinet reshuffle, planned for last week, that would have eliminated the last two military members of his government. At week's end the capital seethed with plots and counterplots, and few doubted that there would be an encore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: The Shattered Filigree | 5/28/1965 | See Source »

...right, snapped an amateur photographer, I'll do it. And since he was also a Maharajah, that settled things indeed. So Sikkim's Palden Thondup Namgyal, 40, did an Antony Armstrong-Jones, took the first picture of his wife, former Manhattanite Hope Cooke, 23, with their week-old son. Hope's son has no claim to the throne (the Maharajah's two sons by an earlier marriage will take care of that), but he got a consolation prize. The Dalai Lama is personally selecting his name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 6, 1964 | 3/6/1964 | See Source »

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