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...draw. The objection can always be made that Frankie is only playing Sinatra, a well-known Broadway character, but then he plays the part with complete conviction and a transcendent vulgarity. Outstanding example: When a woman turns him down, he gives her a long, level look that would boil ice, and says: "If you knew what you was throwin' away, you'd cut your throat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 28, 1957 | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

This summer, as usual, the people of Fish Creek turned out to honor the orchestra and Conductor Johnson at an annual feature: the festival fish boil, held on a spur of grassy land jutting into the lake. It seemed to prove that people would buy the new guys as well as the old-if they were sold right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Fish & Moderns | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

...hottest running debates in U.S. industry today is whether stockholders are better served by boards composed mainly of "inside" directors who are also officers of the corporation, or by "outside" boards consisting principally of men from other companies. Last week the argument was bubbling at a fast boil. In a lengthy study, the American Institute of Management took aim at the board of Bethlehem Steel Corp., all inside directors, reported that the 15 members voted themselves nearly $5,500,000 in bonuses last year despite a $19 million dip in Bethlehem's profits. Said A.I.M., arguing that such bonuses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMPANY DIRECTORS.: The Shift Is from Inside to Outside | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

...Boil. "Democracy without discipline, democracy without guidance has boiled over into anarchy." he went on. "Such democracy is nothing but chatterbox democracy. Freedom that has not yet reached maturity will always be freedom for freedom's sake. It always centers around freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: The Bleakest Day | 8/26/1957 | See Source »

Marty's long-smoldering hatred for his father came to an explosive boil two weeks ago when his old man took his car and $40 in grocery money, went off on a drinking spree with a woman. That night Marty and his mother caught up with the couple in a taproom, demanded the money. Marty's face turned white when his father snarled: "I don't have a cent left. We were over in Jersey and we had a good time." Telling his mother "I can't stand this any more," the boy got into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Bad Seed | 7/8/1957 | See Source »

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