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...They say you find messages in the tea-formations." He chuckled quietly at his dry wit. My tea leaves looked rather like cigarette ashes...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: Japanese Cuisine | 10/18/1957 | See Source »

...most of a marvelous run of creative luck. Gene Kelly dances less than usual, and rather better. Mitzi Gaynor, whose face most Hollywood cameramen have in the past been careful to undertook, is revealed to have a bright and charming one that is capable of expressing a rather pretty wit. And Taina Elg, a ballerina seen in her first important screen role, will undoubtedly be seen again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 14, 1957 | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus had barely left Newport after talking to President Eisenhower when Harlem's Democratic Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Baptist minister, demanded a presidential audience for Negro leaders, to wit, Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Ike agreed, leaving vague the time and place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: First Returns | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

...course far wider than the one from the tabloids to the Times and weirder than anything in between. It echoes with the weepy singsong of Gabriel Heatter, still broadcasting after 32 years, the now-stilled, intelligent frog croak of Elmer Davis, the cocksureness of Fulton Lewis Jr., the literate wit of Eric Sevareid, the pear-shaped tones of Lowell Thomas. Gone now from radio is Winchell's clattering telegraph key and breathless bleat: too seldom heard is aging (79) H. V. Kaltenborn's clipped assurance. The news comes by short wave and on tape, the newsmen in snazzy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: This Is Murrow | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

...late to work, leaves the office every night by 9 to dine with the family in his elegant Avenue Foch apartment. (Madame Gaillard, widow of one of France's wealthiest financiers, has two children by her previous marriage, a son by this one.) His chief handicaps: a malicious wit-"Nothing outside, nothing inside" was his verdict on a bald colleague-and the widespread feeling that he is a coldly ambitious golden boy "sunk in upper-class surroundings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: FRANCE'S DARING YOUNG MAN | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

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