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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Boiled Red. A somewhat less sure comer-througher is Napoleon Solo, hero of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. This la bored acronym stands for United Network Command for Law Enforcement, or good guys. Solo (played by Robert Vaughn) is set to battle weekly against the malevolent members of THRUSH, which stands for bads and is an international organization "with no allegiance to any country or ideal." Last week THRUSH was trying to assassinate the Premier of a new African nation, who was visiting a nuclear chemical plant near Washington. Napoleon Solo and a female companion (Patricia Crowley) in a spangled evening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Second Week Premi | 10/2/1964 | See Source »

There's a song of a bird in a tree,- A song that is fresh, gay, and free, The voice of a last summer's thrush, Shaking out his trills-hush! hush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Unhappy Idyl | 12/27/1963 | See Source »

Married. Dinah Shore, 46, TV's tiptop thrush; and Maurice Fabian Smith, 41, building contractor; both for the second time; in Redlands, Calif., two days after her divorce from Actor George Montgomery became final...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 7, 1963 | 6/7/1963 | See Source »

...Grand Duchy today is a sort of constitutional Camelot. It boasts 130 castles (but no university), pristine forests where wild boar are still hunted, crystalline rivers that teem with crayfish, trout and, of course, water nymphs. The Luxembourgeois, who are walking advertisements for their cuisine (famed specialties: thrush pie and partridge canape), brag that it is "French in quality, German in quantity." In other respects as well, they claim to have Europe's highest living standards. There is neither unemployment nor slums; illiteracy was banished in 1847, and the duchy's booming steel industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Luxembourg: Millennium in Camelot | 4/19/1963 | See Source »

Married. Louis Prima. 51, gravel-voiced bandleader who made such jumpy music with Keely Smith that, until their 1961 divorce, they were the hottest husband-wife act in show biz; and Gia Maione, 21, onetime Howard Johnson's hostess and Prima's new thrush; he for the third time; in Gardnerville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 22, 1963 | 2/22/1963 | See Source »

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