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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sculptor Jacob Epstein, who died last week, was born 78 years ago into the brawling, colorful, self-contained world of Manhattan's Lower East Side. His Polish immigrant parents prospered and moved uptown, but young Epstein, by choice, swam with the rats in the East River, peered wistfully under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Volcanic Knight | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

Epstein reacted to criticism like a maddened elephant, but never let the struggle affect his art. "The man in the street," he would say, thrusting out his low er lip like a rain spout, "is a fool. And I care not a whit for his opinions." Asked his opinion of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Volcanic Knight | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

The tenuous plot has the out-of-sorts singer brought to his senses by a pretty Viennese Fräulein, nicely played by German Actress Johanna von Koczian, in her American screen debut. She is the only woman on the Continent whom Mario can trust to love him for love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 31, 1959 | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

Neither Kolb nor anyone else is claiming that a fusion reaction was definitely achieved. The British, who thought they had achieved it with their Zeta a year ago, later admitted that the neutrons produced came not from fusion but from unintended collisions of high-energy particles. Furthermore, it would take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Getting Closer | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

Ripe for Laughs. In a red plaid sports cap and corduroy trousers full of holes, the bird man was soon out on Commonwealth Avenue collecting crowds in skeptic ranks. In his hands he carried what looked like two thin aluminum cricket bats. Around his neck was a lanyard from which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bird Scotcher | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

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