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...soaring, powder blue La Ronde Room at Miami Beach's Fontainbleau (pronounced: fountain-blew) Hotel were filled with men in silk suits and women in mutation mink. Steak dinners were snapped up at $10 a plate; drink-hustling waiters peddled hooch by the bottle ("Ya might as well. Yer payin' for it"). Then the M.C. silenced the house with a simple announcement: "Direct from the bar of the Boom Boom Room [another Fontainbleau saloon] we bring you the vocalist, Frank Sinatra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGHTCLUBS: The Gold Coast | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

Some folks dare to call Vinson "Uncle Carl," and sometimes "The Swamp Fox," after the Revolution's great strategist, Francis Marion. In committee hearings Uncle Carl's slow drawl and subtle digs ("Wha'd'ya say yer name wuz, Gen'ral?") can shake stars and tangle braid. Though he has long been a stalwart defender of a big Navy, knowledgeable Carl Vinson is also a wise, powerful force for a strong military establishment. But Ike's plan was too much for Uncle Carl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: Floodgates Opened | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

...Lloyd Bridges and Earl Holliman). "I just want to be a woman." They rush into town and, in a hilarious parody of the old John Alden bit, invite the deputy sheriff (Wendell Corey) out to supper. The sheriff lends a helping hand. "You need somethin' warm up against yer backside at night," he declares. "Last night," the deputy doubtfully recalls, "was 104 degrees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Dec. 31, 1956 | 12/31/1956 | See Source »

...guards and carries her off. "Know this, woman," gruffs Wayne, looking about as uncomfortable as a right tackle caught reading Swinburne, "I take you fer wife." But as he pulls Hayward hayward, Hayward pulls away. "For me," she snarls, "there is no ease while you live, Mongol." Says John: "Yer beooduful in yer wrath." He takes her on a trip to the court of the Wang Khan, where they watch a sinuous dancing girl from Samarkand. After a night in Samarkand, John taunts her, "All other wimmin are like the secon' pressing uh the grape." Going at it that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 9, 1956 | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

...done his sister and himself out of the money. Lawyers told him he had no case in law. Undaunted, Wintle took action. He called up Nye, told him he was "Lord Norbury," and asked Nye to come to an apartment in Hove. Nye went. As 71 -year-old Law yer Nye related it in court last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Here Is an Englishman | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

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