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...hero of such indolent disposition that he lets a lady in distress fend off a villain singlehandedly, Ford appears bemused when he should be amusing. Douglas looks plain uncomfortable, and well he might. He gets caught under collapsing tents, heads a sandy downhill charge sitting on skis made from barrel staves, finally leads his men-all wearing nothing but droopy long underwear-in a rampageous free-for-all with renegades who are trying to highjack a shipment of Union gold. Bringing the Civil War era to life in Mack Sennett style calls for a tricky blend of taste and ingenuity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Union Blue Comedy | 6/26/1964 | See Source »

...true that Candy, Mephesto the mad professor, Irving Krankheit the mad psychiatrist (author of Masturbation Now!), a mad Buddhist monk, and several other off-white slaverers at whom she throws herself, have as much fun as a barrel of impure-minded monkeys. But the result is not uproarious enough to require comparison to Byron (as one critic has suggested), unless you have something against Byron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Southern Exposure | 6/12/1964 | See Source »

...much in their state. Invariably, Salinger's campaign pitch includes recollections of the days of glory with Jack Kennedy, of his own meeting in Moscow with "Chairman Khrushchev," of how he and a few other New Frontier notables spent seven days and seven nights "looking down the nuclear barrel" at Castro. He insists that he knows more people in Washington than Cranston, and as a Senator could get past more doors. Replies Cranston: "It is one thing to get in the door. It is another thing to know what to do when you're inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Difficulty of Selling Soap | 5/29/1964 | See Source »

Puzzled Spacemen. Crandall has been doing this from 7:45 until midnight for a month. He got the job because WNBC was flopping on the bottom of the New York radio ratings barrel. Noting that RKO's WOR had long held top position by putting on talk shows around the clock, WNBC decided to do the same-with Brad Crandall doing most of the talking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Talk Man | 5/1/1964 | See Source »

...excellence, which has never been beaten in show competition The body has been chopped and channeled and has white Naugahyde bucket seats and fur-covered pedals. It is painted with 30 coats of candy-apple cherry, and is powered with a huge 301 Corvette engine with 4-four barrel carbs and a jMC 671 supercharger. The engine is also equipped with clear plastic valve covers, "so that the judges can see its guts," as one hot-rodder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hobbies: The Customizers | 4/10/1964 | See Source »

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