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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Schnulze has paid off so well that Gloria Films has never taken a penny of government subsidy, a rare record in postwar Germany. Its catalogue of 23 films represents only 12% of the German movies now in circulation, but its annual gross ($35,850,000) comes to 30% of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOVIES ABROAD: A Tycoon Named Use | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

Winner Frager won a $1,000 cash prize and engagements with the New York Philharmonic and the Buffalo, Cleveland, Denver, Detroit and Pittsburgh orchestras. Three times a Leventritt finalist (in 1955, '56 and '57), Frager has played with the Detroit Symphony and other front-ranking U.S. orchestras. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Fanfare for Piano | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

Reigning spirit of the museum, as of the Northern Renaissance, is Pieter Brueghel the Elder, represented by two paintings: Mad Margaret and Flemish Proverbs. The first represents a giant housewife on what appears to be a militant invasion of hell. It has been widely reproduced. The second-Flemish Proverbs-may...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: HIDDEN MASTERPIECES: Brueghel's Proverbs | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

No matter what he happened to hit during the monthlong derby, Oscar Flanders, 64, would still be regarded by the experts with the same reverential awe they reserve for the striper himself. A stumpy 230 lbs., he won last year with a 51-pounder that he promptly sold to "some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Stalker | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

In the three weeks the derby has run, Oscar's best is only a 20-pounder. He is undiscouraged. Says he: "What can be better than trying to work it out in your head, and in your heart, too, about the big fish in the ocean? It's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Stalker | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

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