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...league leadership (with 40) from Teammate Mickey Mantle (who hit two in three days) and spurted 22 games ahead of Babe Ruth's record 1927 pace. Second-string Yankee Catcher Johnny Blanchard tied a major-league record by hitting four consecutive homers, and even Third Baseman Cletis Boyer (batting average: .231) hit three in two games. Moaned beleaguered Chicago Manager Al Lopez: "I think the fans want to see some bunting and some hit-and-run, not just home runs." But the fans seemed to love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Year of the Homer (Contd.) | 8/4/1961 | See Source »

There is a good deal to be said for Logan's second try, all of it in praise of a couple of fraternally rancorous old goats, Maurice Chevalier and Charles Boyer. Chevalier plays Panisse, who marries the pregnant Fanny (Leslie Caron) after her sea-struck lover, Marius (Horst Buch-holz), jilts her for a square-rigger. Boyer plays Marius' father, Cesar. They are vast bladders of honor, mountains of wrath, vestfuls of selfesteem, and it is a great pleasure to watch them cheat each other at cards or craftily set a derby hat in the street and wait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tour de Tour | 7/14/1961 | See Source »

...epigraph to an anthology of off-color jokes composed in 1957 by a shrewd young man named Leslie Stevens and palmed off on the Broadway public as a play. Partly because the jokes were slickly written, mostly because they were deftly read by two famous charm merchants (Charles Boyer, Claudette Colbert) and a well-stacked skyscraper (Julie Newmar), the play was a mash hit and ran more than a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Comedies | 1/20/1961 | See Source »

...Deluxe Colored screen version of the play, written and produced by Playwright Stevens, lacks two of the Broadway principals and most of the bawdier jokes. Instead of Boyer and Colbert, the picture offers James Mason, an actor who could not crack a joke if it was a lichee nut, and Susan Hayward, a bargain-basement Bette Davis whose lightest touch as comedienne would stun a horse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Comedies | 1/20/1961 | See Source »

...Dinah Shore Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Taped in Paris, where the songstress sightsees with the second grand Charles-Boyer-and the Ballet of the Opéra Comique. Color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Dec. 5, 1960 | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

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