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...wonders if he has a conscience, and the camera pans down and the flames fill the whole screen. There is a goodly quantity of classic cowboy-and-Indian manuevers and physical violence but never does it seem like plot filler. Also greatly contributing is Max Steiner's fine, taut, musical score...

Author: By Gerald E. Bunker, | Title: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | 11/12/1957 | See Source »

Moving into this taut situation with the touch of a blustering gamesman, Khrushchev put himself in a position to boast that only his timely threats had saved Syria from the terrible Turks. For most Arabs know that the seedy Syrian army constitutes no match for Turkey's 500,000 formidable soldiers. To the aroused Arabs, it seemed all too likely that the Turks were eager to take on the job of policing the Middle East for the Western powers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Dabbling in Chaos | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

...effectively as radio, which not only beats TV on most news but provides more of it. The rest of the answers are more personal: one is what TV hucksters call sex appeal. Murrow is tall (6 ft. 1 in.) and compact (175 lbs.). His saturnine good looks and taut doomsday voice project virile authority. Person to Person, which also displays his urbane charm and ready smile, attracts far more women than men viewers, according to Trendex surveys, and in deference to this finding Person to Person technicians (so far unknown to Murrow) are now under orders to adjust camera angles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: This Is Murrow | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

Bernice Cozzens is a slight, trim woman with azure blue eyes, brown hair drawn taut in a bun, and a little-girl air of gravity. A passionately liberal Democrat, she is known as one of the shrewdest, scrappiest literary agents (annual income: about $30,000) in Manhattan, handling a stable of topflight authors, including rock-solid Republican James Gould Cozzens. Their childless marriage has been a remarkable success. While he stuck to his writing and made little money from it, she was the real breadwinner. Says Cozzens: "It could have been a humiliating situation, but I guess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Hermit of Lambertville | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

...lending museums get full reports on some of the difficulties. In high (4,825 ft.), dry Salisbury the humidity at night falls as low as 30%. With his gallery's humidifiers not yet in action. McEwen found that the dangerously low humidity was stretching the priceless canvases so taut that "they were ready to explode." To fight the dry air, McEwen and his Rhodesian sculptress wife, Cecilia, night after night dashed between their .flat and the gallery to drape damp towels over the frames of the stretching masterpieces. When asked about the effect of this do-it-yourself humidifying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: South of Sahara | 8/26/1957 | See Source »

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