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...Suzy figured it, she was not at Epsom to clean out the bookies. Her husband, the late Leon Volterra, French theater tycoon (Folies-Bergeres and Casino de Paris), had left her well fixed. She wanted to win to wipe out a white lie: Leon had died in 1949 still believing his wife's report that he owned a Derby winner. That year, the Volterra stables were running Amour Drake, the Derby favorite, and Amour Drake was beaten in a photo finish. Léon Volterra, on his deathbed, was told his horse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: White Lie | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

...need for mass adulation." Life With Father. Around home, according to the girls, Father was lovable but incompetent. "Every Sunday he would be mumbling about getting out in the back and doing some work," recalls Carolyn, "but all he ever did was walk around with some Soilax and wipe fingerprints off the doorknobs." Goodie apparently suffered the fate of most men who must live in a feminine household...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Don Juan in Heaven | 5/30/1955 | See Source »

...bomb under each wing for an attack on a troublesome artillery battery could now devastate an army's reserve-supply area. The artillery commander who might have aimed an 8-in. howitzer at a crossroads could now aim a similar weapon, fire an atomic shell and wipe out the heart of a whole infantry division. A Navy torpedo plane could launch an atomic torpedo that could lift a ship out of the water; a destroyer could fire an atomic depth charge that would crush submarines like eggshells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The Little Big Ones | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

...issued an optimistic statement. Much heartened, the Premiers of France and Tunisia got to work again, and at 1:25 a.m. gave out the joyful word: they had reached agreement. Almost choked with emotion, Premier Ben Amar said: "This is our wedding day." Said Premier Faure: "We must wipe the slate clean of past grievances and consider the future." As a reward for Bourguiba, all restrictions on his movements were taken off: he was free to return to Tunisia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TUNISIA: Wedding Day | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

...manufacturers and suppliers holding $10,000 or more in Government contracts. Since the Labor Department's minimums were affecting the wage scale throughout the textile industry, Southern textile men wanted to attack the order in court. After Fulbright put through the amendment, the Southern manufacturers sued to wipe out the national minimum of $1 an hour in cotton, silk and synthetic textile plants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: On the South Side | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

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