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...grossed a phenomenal $4,300,000 but had also become a social phenomenon. Travel bureaus this summer were flooded with requests from people who wanted to see the original of what they saw in Cinerama: the Grand Canyon, the canals of Venice, the bull rings of Spain. Even the roller coaster at New York's Rockaway Playland-the opening attraction in Cinerama's two-hour documentary-had enjoyed a record year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Birthday of the Revolution | 10/12/1953 | See Source »

Patricia: Well. roller skating and things, tennis--oh, Chicago...

Author: By David Royce, | Title: You Oughta Be in Pictures | 10/2/1953 | See Source »

Rolled Razor. Warner-Hudnut, Inc. of Manhattan began market-testing a new safety razor containing 32 blades in the form of a 40-in. ribbon of thin steel wound about a reel. As a blade becomes dull it is wound onto another roller and a new one slides into place. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Sep. 14, 1953 | 9/14/1953 | See Source »

...addition to making cartoon films aimed primarily at grownups ("I'm not against children; we just like to do adult things"), Bosustow does training films for the armed forces, industrial films for such clients as Shell Oil Co. and Timken Roller Bearings, TV commercials and such specialized jobs as the supplying of cartoon "bridges" for the film The Four-Poster, starring Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer. He is eager to move on to full-length animated pictures, and hopes to rival Disney's Cinderella and Peter Pan with adult treatments of classic stories, such as Volpone and Helen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: 7 Minutes With a Madman | 9/14/1953 | See Source »

...steep angle, Pierre was drawn aloft. He let loose the cable when the Air 102 had climbed hundreds of feet above the field. Skillfully flitting from updraft to updraft, he zigzagged and roller-coastered around the triangle. He sewed up the grand championship for himself by whooshing the distance at an average speed of 35.8 m.p.h., a French record for his class of glider. Unable to speak German, Pierre grinned his gratitude on being awarded the top trophy. "Pierre is an excellent and very clever flyer," said Germany's Runner-Up Ernst Haase. Then he added thoughtfully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: New Wings | 8/17/1953 | See Source »

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