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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...around the world. For few men had ever seemed more thoroughly equipped by education and experience for leadership than Anthony Eden. Descendant of a centuries-old landed family, educated at Eton and Oxford, decorated for gallantry in World War I. Foreign Secretary at 38, Eden was the handsome glamour boy of the prewar international scene, made himself the hero of millions when he resigned in 1938 to protest Chamberlain's policies of appeasement. He was probably the most skilled diplomatic technician of his time. When, after long years in the shadow of the great Churchill, Eden became Prime Minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Chosen Leader | 1/21/1957 | See Source »

...years, and repeatedly makes medical allusions and diagnoses. Now what person fills the bill--theologian, philosopher, musician, physician, and compassionate servant of the less fortunate for half a century? Albert Schweitzer. If you think this far-fetched, I call your attention to the fact that Godot's boy messenger, on both his entrances, addresses Didi as "Mister Albert." This play has inexhaustible riches for all who will take the trouble. It is not truly enigmatic; it is simply unorthodox...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: The Enigma of 'Godot' | 1/17/1957 | See Source »

...meet them there. The pair talk for a while, and than they are joined by two other characters, a cruel slave-driver and the slave whom he leads around on the end of a rope. After some more conversation, Pozzo, the master, and Lucky, the slave leave. A boy comes to tell the hoboes that Godot won't come that night, and the curtain falls. The second act, which takes place on the following night, is just like the first, except that when Pozzo and Lucky pass by again, the slave has become dumb and the master blind...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: Waiting for Godot | 1/15/1957 | See Source »

Rise & Fine. In Columbia, S.C., after she turned in a false alarm, Dorothy Genokes was fined $25.50 despite her explanation: she couldn't wake her boy friend up, "so I decided to let the fire department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 14, 1957 | 1/14/1957 | See Source »

...least original in its attempt to force normal speech patterns and language into a poetic form. The script occasionally rises to real eloquence, but more often it is tawdry and indulges in the most egregious bad taste. Mr. Hargrove's use of profanity is completely gratuitous, like a small boy swearing before his parents to see how they will react...

Author: By Gerald E. Bunker, | Title: The Martyrdom of Roy Wilson | 1/14/1957 | See Source »

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