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...again with another security agent (James Arness) and a beautiful female scientist (Joan Weldon) to hunt the horrors out. The hunters pump the anthill full of cyanide gas, and then go stalking through a giant welter of tunnels in search of survivors. Two queen ants, they discover, have flown the nest. Aghast, the entomologist rushes to Washington to tell an emergency meeting of VIPs that if the queens succeed in breeding a new generation, "man will probably be extinct within nine months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Monsters | 7/19/1954 | See Source »

Lehar: Land of Smiles (Elisabeth Schwartzkopf, Nicolai Gedda, Erich Kuntz; Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Otto Ackermann; Angel, 2 LPs). Lehar's famed oriental operetta (1931), which offers such grand old tunes as Yours Is My Heart Alone among its welter of melodies, gets what is probably its most elegant hearing with a first-rate cast and a luxurious recording...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, may 17, 1954 | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

...theatrical technique into September Song a la Walter Huston. Then it sidles off into a calypso tempo (Man, Man Is for the Woman Made), goes serious again when Margo dramatizes a mother's prayer (from Irwin Shaw's Sons and Soldiers), winds up in a welter of straw-hatted vaudeville routines and a big burst of applause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Virtue of Nightclubs | 5/3/1954 | See Source »

...favor the unexpected slogan, the daring phrase, and the clever metaphor. After discarding a welter of potential winners I finally penned this entry, "I want to go to Niagara Falls and see the whole cast of Rose Marie go over the Falls in a Cinemascopic Barrel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: . . . Or Less | 4/22/1954 | See Source »

...quietly began to cry. Unmoved, Rubirosa curled his lip and told her: "Get out! I don't need you!" Zsa Zsa went-by taxi straight to Rubirosa's Paris home, where she was a house guest. By late next afternoon, their little spat was lost in a welter of cooing. Zsa Zsa, looking wan but well, cantered off with Rubi for a pastoral horseback ride through the burgeoning Bois de Boulogne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 19, 1954 | 4/19/1954 | See Source »

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