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Married. Richard Applegate, 40, NBC correspondent captured in 1953 by the Chinese Communists while cruising on a small yacht west of Hong Kong, and released last fall after 18 months' imprisonment; and Barbara Barrows Hoerter, 38, Applegate's lecture manager; both for the second time; in Chicago. Serving as best man was I.N.S. Correspondent Donald Dixon, who was captured with Applegate and released by the Chinese at the same time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 4, 1955 | 4/4/1955 | See Source »

Much of Elia Kazan's staging adds force and vividness, and so does much of the acting-particularly Burl Ives as the doomed father and Barbara Bel Geddes as the desperate wife, insecure as a cat on a hot tin roof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Apr. 4, 1955 | 4/4/1955 | See Source »

Only a marine biologist would have found the shell exciting. Hubbs knew that cryptochitons do not live, at present, south of Santa Barbara, 300 miles to the north. He deduced that the water off Lower California (and presumably the climate) must have been considerably colder when the prehistoric Indians ate that cryptochiton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fossil Climate | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

From Hollywood, garrulous Cinemactress Zsa Zsa Gabor issued one of her regular reports on her pillar-to-post romance with closemouthed Dominican Playboy Porfirio Rubirosa, now listlessly awaiting a Dominican divorce from his fourth wife, Five & Dime Heiress Barbara Mutton. "He is screaming about my career," screamed Zsa Zsa. "Rubi has forced me to choose between him and my career. And now it looks like I'll have to choose my acting . . . I'm in too much of a hurry to become a top actress." Every once in a while, also complained Zsa Zsa, Rubirosa's easygoing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 21, 1955 | 3/21/1955 | See Source »

...Star Red Cross Show (Sun. 5:30 p.m. NBC). Variety starring Jeff Chandler Barbara Stanwyck, Loretta Young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Mar. 21, 1955 | 3/21/1955 | See Source »

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