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...nation was preoccupied with the approaching end of World War II. Recalls Producer Harry Mynatt: "They had a hell of a time getting an audience-had to pass out dollar bills to get people into the theater. " Now the ladies fight to get into the Hollywood studio, bolt a buffet lunch, and scribble their wishes on a card. M.C. Bailey and Producer Mynatt select the 21 likeliest wishes, and backstage interviews just before air time pick the day's five contestants to be judged by the studio audience. "The woman who gives her wish from the bottom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Troubles & Bubbles | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

...miracle. Dis is gwine be a restricting miracle on de Piety Test Rules, Miracle I, Section fifty-nine: 'Salvation by piety, dat is our aim.' Let de clause now read: 'Salvation by piety and extra-curricular activities, dat is our aim.' Ah'm gwine to throw a little lightnin bolt now to cleah up de red tape...

Author: By Calvin Trapp, | Title: Crisis in High Places | 2/26/1957 | See Source »

Once a Dictator. To everyone's surprise, Magsaysay freely admitted that he had indeed signed a secret pact. Disillusioned by the corruption around him while serving as Defense Minister in the Liberal government of President Elpidio Quirino, Magsaysay agreed to bolt the Liberal Party and accept the Nationalist Party nomination for President. But in his pact with the Nationalists' José Laurel and Recto and Senator Lorenzo Tañada of the Citizen's Party, Magsaysay had made no stipulation about one term, he said. In fact, he told TIME'S James Bell last week, "Laurel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Smiles in the Barrios | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

...picture is over? You can bet your week's wampum it isn't. That Oregon trail was 2,000 miles long, and Realist Disney seems determined to make the moviegoer jolt, bolt or Colt his way over every dad-burned mile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 4, 1957 | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

...Assistant Sherman Adams, U.S. Delegate to the U.N. Paul Hoffman ("a throwback on the human race"), Presidential Disarmament Adviser Harold E. Stassen (a Stevensonite who "goes further" than Adlai), and the President's brother, Milton Eisenhower ("no more a Republican than ... a Hottentot"). Then McCarthy shot his real bolt of news: he. 47, and his pretty wife Jean have adopted a five-week-old baby girl, their first. Is Joe sick, on the verge of resigning from the Senate? Declaring his candidacy for re-election in '58, the Senator offered to lace on "eight-ounce gloves," take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 21, 1957 | 1/21/1957 | See Source »

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