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...lifetime of outstanding contributions to aeronautics, including pioneering with multi-engine airplanes, flying boats, amphibians and helicopters," Russian-born Igor I. Sikorsky, 62, was awarded the 1951 Guggenheim aviation medal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Hearts & Flowers | 8/13/1951 | See Source »

...plot was first used by Maurice Chevalier on Broadway in 1934, when the title was "The Red Cat." Don Ameche made a movie of its entitled "Folies Bergere" in 1941. The gimmick is Kaye, the night-club performer, impersonating Kaye, the greatest aviator since Lindbergh. The complications involve a multi-billion franc financial deal, a beautiful, half-clothed wife (Gene Tierney), and a beautiful, half-clothed dancing partner (Corinne Calvet). The plot is so involved that it deserves no more serious attention than it gets. But even its incredibility is worked for laughs...

Author: By Andrew E. Norman, | Title: The Moviegoer | 6/2/1951 | See Source »

...Jolters in all her beauty, you are soon going to get your chance. The Supreme Court decided the other day to let C.B.S. put a little color wheel in front of your TV set that will cause all which now seems mere black-and-white to take on a multi-colored...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The New Barbarism, With Color | 5/31/1951 | See Source »

...Congressional hearings, the implications of televising these hearings become more ominous. A number of irresponsible Congressmen have capitalized on the publicity of such investigations in the past, and the new medium of TV has provided them with even greater vote-getting opportunities. The potentialities offered by a multi-million audience would be an irresistible temptation to smear experts of the McCarthy stripe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Invidious Danger | 4/16/1951 | See Source »

...invasion in the near future. It would take a year's flow of full U.S. aid before the Free Chinese would be well enough equipped. Chiang would be unwilling to risk the bulk of his armed forces in any operation which was not part of an Asia-wide, multi-nation operation, including the U.S. forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DANGER ZONES: Another Chinese Revolution? | 3/26/1951 | See Source »

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