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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alec Guinness, in a beard-and-wheel-chair getup reminiscent of Monty Woolley in The Man Who Came to Dinner, is delightful as the King. But the real star is the Old Vic's Irene Worth, a Nebraska girl who went to England a decade ago and came back (she was last seen with Guinness in Manhattan in T. S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party) sounding more English than Edith Sitwell. She plays Helena as if she meant it with all her heart; her love for a fool is convincing, her distress in a farcical predicament truly moving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Shakespeare in Canada | 7/27/1953 | See Source »

...championship for smaller boats, the Seawanhaka Cup series, was launched. Though he was in no position to appreciate it at the time, Corny Shields was to help win the Seawanhaka Cup for the U.S. by the time he was 40, and was to have his own turns at the wheel of a big America's Cup boat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Design for Living | 7/27/1953 | See Source »

...National Sports Car Races on the runways of Offutt Air Force Base at Omaha, photographers came upon General Curtis E. LeMay, chief of the Strategic Air Command, got him to pose in a flowery shirt and crash helmet behind the wheel of his souped-up Cadillac-Allard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 20, 1953 | 7/20/1953 | See Source »

False Economy. In Oakland, Calif., fined $15 for driving without a steering wheel, Emmet Williams testified that he used a wrench to turn the steering mechanism, added: "I was very careful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 20, 1953 | 7/20/1953 | See Source »

...assembly line. Short (12 ft. 4 in.) and low (3 ft. 10 in. to the top of the windshield), it has a four-cylinder, 90-h.p. engine with two carburetors and 8.5 to 1 compression ratio. The TR-2 gets 24 miles to the gallon, has independent front-wheel suspension for easier riding and two bucket seats. A particular attraction for sports-car buyers: the jetlike scream produced at high speed by the air scoop in front. The TR-2 will go on sale in the U.S. early in September at about $1,500 plus taxes. One enthusiastic group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Britain's Triumph | 7/13/1953 | See Source »

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