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The localness of the Adelie wind suggested that it might be caused by some peculiar topographical feature in inland Antarctica, but no one was sure until U.S. Navy airplanes recently explored the region between the South Pole and Wilkes Land. According to Dr. Paul A. Siple, just returned from Antarctica...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Antarctic Wind Machine | 3/26/1956 | See Source »

Kress was better known as an old master of business, but in his business as in his collecting, he was essentially a talented copyist. He was born in eastern Pennsylvania just three weeks after the Battle of Gettysburg, where his uncle and namesake was killed. His Pennsylvania Dutch family was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PHILANTHROPY: Collector No. I | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

Four score and ten years ago, a gunman jumped onto the stage at Ford's Theater in Washington, and fled, to be hunted down as an assassin. Last week in the African nation founded by American freedmen, one Paul Dunbar cast himself in the role of John Wilkes Booth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIBERIA: Shooting at Uncle Shad | 7/4/1955 | See Source »

NANCY SMITH Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 13, 1955 | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

Movie No. 1 is the film biography of the Booths, the brilliant theatrical family that produced in Edwin Booth the man often called "the greatest American actor," and in his brother, John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln. The story begins with Edwin (Richard Burton) as a boy of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 7, 1955 | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

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