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...Your mother sure didn't do much for a living." "That's all right; she didn't bark"). And the quarter-truths in Richard L. Breen's screenplay ("Why does the law always work for the guilty?" "Because the innocent don't need it") zip by so fast and frequently that sometimes they almost blur into an honest statement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Summer Murders | 9/6/1954 | See Source »

...walks when there is room to run, even if only from bench to field or field to shower room. In the broad domain of centerfield, Mays covers ground with limber-legged speed to pull down balls tagged with the promise of extra bases. He throws from center with a zip and an aim that have brought chagrin to the National League's brashest baserunners. "He's thrown men out at first like he was a shortstop," says the Giants' captain and shortstop, Alvin Dark. "He nails 'em at home like he was throwing from second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: He Come to Win | 7/26/1954 | See Source »

...then start paying dividends on the New Haven's 525,789 shares of common stock. He hopes to boost long-haul passenger traffic by faster trains, is toying with the idea of a low-slung aluminum train something like Spain's 120-m.p.h. Talgo express that could zip from New York to Boston in fewer than three hours. He plans faster, better service for commuters, thinks he can do it without boosting fares. But he is not going to take over Dumaine's private car. He quipped: "I'd be afraid to after what happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: The New Haven Decides | 4/26/1954 | See Source »

...this one by a chicken-pox epidemic that serves little purpose except to permit the audience and the hero (Guy Madison) to peek down the blouse of the heroine (Joan Weldon) while she is being vaccinated. The WarnerColor is pretty, too, and in stereophonic sound, the arrows seem to zip alarmingly right past the moviegoer's ear and plunge into the screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 1, 1954 | 2/1/1954 | See Source »

...trend away from the raccoon coat continues as the bulky great-coat of recent years gives way to lighter, weather repellent fabrics with zip-in linings. The crowning glory of the college man's hat also seems on the down grade. One style, however, the Tyrolean green alpine model with feather brush and hidden ear-muffs, is gaining popularity so quickly that one expects to hear yodels echoing from the steps of Widener...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spectre of Mid - Western Sartorial Tastes Threatens Traditional University Fashions | 11/13/1953 | See Source »

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