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Like It or Lump It. Last week, on NBC for Bristol-Myers (Ipana toothpaste), pint-sized (5 ft., 98 Ibs.) Kathryn Murray catapulted through a sketch as a theater usherette pantomiming a gypsy musical, and rode herd on a typical Party: a swirl of waltzers, a specialty spot by Dancers Rod Alexander and Bambi Lynn, an amateur ballroom-dancing contest between three couples aged five to eleven, and, in the closing moments, an appearance by tall, erect Arthur Murray, 62, in time to waltz his wife away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Sponsor's Wife | 7/22/1957 | See Source »

Bouncing about among the opening-day crowd was foresighted Ernst Buchner, now 55, who had led the fight to rebuild the museum, and is once again its director. Said he. with just a touch of a lump in his throat: "A mile stone in the history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Home from the Salt Mines | 6/17/1957 | See Source »

...more important, the essentially evocative power that Cocteau manages to achieve through his choice of words is faithfully transcribed, as in the unwrapping of the lump of poison...

Author: By John A. Pope, | Title: New Translation of Jean Cocteau Novel | 5/23/1957 | See Source »

Faculty of Arts and Sciences salaries at all levels will lump next Fall for the second year in a row, it was learned yesterday. The raises are to range from up to $240 for teaching fellows to a full $1,000 minimum increase for full professors...

Author: By Paul H. Plotz, | Title: Salaries For Arts-Sciences Faculty To Rise Sharply Again This Fall | 5/1/1957 | See Source »

...protection plus a source of income to provide for their old age. A big favorite of unmarried career women and family men who have other insurance, one form of a $10,000 endowment policy pays $10,000 in insurance if the policyholder dies before the age of 65, a lump sum of $10,000 when he reaches the age of 65, or an income of $65 monthly for the rest of his life. The drawback is that because endowment policies build up big cash values, premiums are the highest of all. Cost of a $10,000 endowment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: LIFE INSURANCE: FIVE FORMS | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

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