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Comedy in Music is simply Victor Borge, and his one-man show is Broadway's best show so far this season. To a Broadway glutted with solo flights-half of them spills to boot-Borge is almost able to demonstrate that, in terms of entertainers, two's a crowd and even a stooge is a superfluity. Long a success in nightclubs and TV, he fits perfectly into the theater. No more a routine comic than a straight pianist, he has the superb showmanship that can hold audiences by doing anything-or nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Shows in Manhattan, Oct. 12, 1953 | 10/12/1953 | See Source »

Lionel Stevenson, biographer of Thackeray and professor of English at the University of Southern California, is just such a historian and a Meredithian to boot. His Ordeal of George Meredith is the first grand-scale resurrection of Victorian literature's most neglected writer. Other writers (including Henry James and Oscar Wilde) have briefly and brilliantly discussed Meredith's peculiar genius, but none has placed him in the great chain so accurately as Stevenson or studied his life and letters with such devoted care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Wounded Egoist | 10/12/1953 | See Source »

...four goals in an overtime period to defeat Tabor Academy 5 to 1, after high-scorer Ed Burlingame evened the tally one-all near the end of the fourth quarter. Both teams repeatedly missed goals until Tabor broke the scoreless deadlock in the third period with a short boot into the corner of the Crimson...

Author: By Peter G. Palches, | Title: Varsity Soccer Team Whips Williams, 2-1, in Fall Opener | 10/5/1953 | See Source »

...well the craftsman's art links the peoples of the world. One display of shoes showed the common ingenuity of the world's cobblers: a wooden Dutch shoe for the wet lowlands, a cool leather sandal for Arabia's hot sands, a warm quilted-cotton boot for Manchuria's bitter winters. Wooden manikins wore beautifully embroidered costumes from the Andean highlands and a fascinating suit of woven palm-fiber armor made for a South Sea island warrior. There were tiny statues, ceremonial masks, hoes and puppets from such widely separated areas as Borneo, Europe and Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Crafts Across the Sea | 9/14/1953 | See Source »

Three days bread & water for your Pentagon correspondent ... for calling the "Air Force Navy" a flotilla of admirals' gigs [TIME, Aug. 24]. Any boot knows that: The captain rides in a gig The admiral rides in a barge It doesn't go a damn bit faster, but it makes the old bastard feel large...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 7, 1953 | 9/7/1953 | See Source »

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