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"Tito seemed relieved when he could turn to shake hands with the less-animated Premier Bulganin. Wistful and out of place in his distinctly subordinate role, goateed Nikolai Bulganin looked like a professor of geology who has suddenly been swept up in a reception for Danny Kaye. Anastas Mikoyan, First...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Come Back, Little Tito | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

The kids look just about the same as they did a quarter of a century ago. Spanky MacFarland is built close to the ground, but always rises to an occasion. Alfalfa is wistful, but his cowlick won't stay put. Doe-eyed Farina has his black hair up in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Perennial Rascals | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

Eartha Kitt, 27, did not seem the type to ask people to do what they wished-only what she wished. Where Dorothy shimmered in white satin, Eartha smoldered in red bugle beads. Where Dorothy swayed in sweet resignation, Eartha froze and darted her almond eyes. When Eartha sang, it was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Two for the Show | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

The Night Hawk. A restless sleeper, Cartoonist Clark often gets up at 2 a.m. to plod back to the cluttered 6-by-8-ft. cubicle in the eight-room Manhattan apartment where he works. Says he: "It takes me at least six hours to warm up. I sit there trying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Neighbors' Neighbor | 3/21/1955 | See Source »

¶ Esme is a slim, wistful artist's model, and a heroin addict. In her lost, grieving face, Wyatt finds inspiration for his forged Madonnas.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Counterfeiters | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

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