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...vaudeville circuit, went to Hollywood, where his waggish ways and round, jovial face won him more than a hundred supporting roles. Playing a happy-go-lucky buffoon, he worked in such films as Million Dollar Legs with W.C. Fields, The Affairs of Annabel with Lucille Ball and Tin Pan Alley with Alice Faye. A consummate ogler, Oakie could steal a scene by simply looking at a girl's legs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 6, 1978 | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

...covert CIA operations can ?or should?be ruled out. "There is a mean, dirty, back-alley struggle going on in which many other governments are participating," says former Secretary of State Dean Rusk. "If we withdraw unilaterally, they aren't going to stop. We must maintain a first-rate covert capability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shaping Tomorrow's CIA | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

...unusual ceremony. As the audience rose quietly to its feet, a sole trumpeter onstage played first the Soviet national anthem and then that of the U.S. This salute to theatrical detente came about through the zealous effort of Nina Vance, founder and longtime head of Houston's Alley Theater. On a cultural exchange mission to the U.S.S.R. in May 1977, Vance was particularly impressed by Mikhail Roschin's Echelon and the way in which it was directed by Galina Volchek, head of Moscow's Sovremennik Theater and a noted actress as well. Vance prevailed upon Volchek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Texas Detente | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

...Crimson's next scoring binge came when Fine dropped a layup and then laced a picture-perfect alley-oop pass to Booker to maintain the 11-point...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Hoopsters Blitz Brown With First Half Blowout | 2/4/1978 | See Source »

...Dracula of Shubert Alley was born in Yugoslavia 52 years ago, came to the U.S. at 15 and took a Ph.D. in comparative literature at Harvard. After contributing to a number of publications, Simon became New York's drama critic in 1969 and switched to film reviews in 1975. Simon's movie reviewing for other publications had been first-rate, but the scholar seemed miscast in that role for New York, wasting himself on recondite rhapsodies for slick-but-shallow entertainments like The Spy Who Loved Me, until New York mercifully put him back on the theater beat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Count Dracula Of Shubert Alley | 12/26/1977 | See Source »

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