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...makes Vincent Price look like a corn-silk addict. The private eye in the caper is Tony Curtis, who not only uses his body more expertly than Victor Mature but sometimes even moves his face. The only trouble is that there's "a philosophical piano player" (Victor Sen Yung) in the house quite a bit of the time, and Confucius in ragtime is a little hard to take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Double Feature | 3/22/1954 | See Source »

...will be sufficient if you grow enough to keep yourself fed. Once you make a success of your production, your staircase will be leveled by the footsteps of visitors." Others were afraid of being accused of exploitation. "Because Poor Peasant Kan Yao-ching once lent grain to Kan Yung-lin, the masses wanted to promote him as a landlord during the reinvestigation. He said: 'I really dare not lend out grain again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Tigers Borrowing Pigs | 3/15/1954 | See Source »

Rhee's most articulate spokesman in Seoul was Foreign Minister and Acting Premier Pyun Yung Tai, who sat last week in a bullet-pocked hospital in Seoul. Said Pyun: "The leaders of the free world are still suffering from the ideological hangover of the Second World War. You wait while your enemy is sharpening his dagger to kill you. You will call me a warmonger, but I am not. We have learned the lessons of war as you never have and we want peace desperately. But we want a real peace, not a sham peace. We are not stupid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: A Bad Page of History | 6/15/1953 | See Source »

Specifically, South Korea's aging (78) President was objecting to the new U.N. truce plan, submitted to the Communists in a secret session last week. But his real complaint was as old as the truce talks themselves. Rhee's foreign minister, Pyun Yung Tai, summed it up: "We cannot accept any premise that leaves Korea divided and makes North Korea a Chinese colony." For decades Patriot Rhee and his followers have dreamed of, planned, suffered torture and exile for an independent and unified Korea. Now, a few miles away from his wistaria-covered terrace, U.N. negotiators were bargaining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ALLIES: The Hour Is Late | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

...threat, Rhee kicked him out of the Home Ministry and had police, block leaders and village elders pass the word to voters that Rhee's favorite for the vice-presidency was not Lee, but a little-known politico of 82 (some say he is 84) named Ham Dae Yung. Half a century ago, Rhee was condemned to death for political activities. Ham, then a young judge, commuted his sentence. Last week Rhee's good friend Ham beat out Lee by 1,000,000 votes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KOREA: Old Hero in a Walk | 8/18/1952 | See Source »

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