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...seeming eagerness to tell his story. With that eager telling last week began the climax of a remarkable murder trial, concerning, as most do, lust and money, but also involving such elements as wife swapping and credit ratings, such characters as a self-styled lady killer, a brash mistress and a hysterical maid, such props as a "do-it-yourself murder kit" and a gift Cadillac-and centering around Finch's wife Barbara, found dead last summer with a bullet in her back and three skull fractures. On trial with Finch for her murder was his mistress, Carole Tregoff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Doctor's Dilemma | 2/15/1960 | See Source »

...Washington entertained any doubts about it, the junior Senator from Minnesota soon dispelled them. He arrived in the capital talking, and before his freshman year was over had challenged the veracity of Virginia's prestigious Harry Byrd-right on the Senate floor. Official Washington dismissed him as a brash, flippant, pushy chatterbox. It took years to live those first impressions down. "Maybe it would have been better," Humphrey admits, "if I had sat back and waited a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: The Liberal Flame | 2/1/1960 | See Source »

North by Northwest. Superb Hitchcock-and-bullets, with an enduringly spotless Cary Grant and a refreshingly unzippered Eva Marie Saint, involving foreign agents who are brash enough to think they can fill Grant's tomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: CINEMA | 1/18/1960 | See Source »

North by Northwest. Superb Hitchcock-and-bullets, with an enduringly spotless Gary Grant and a refreshingly unzippered Eva Marie Saint, involving foreign agents who are brash enough to think they can fill Grant's tomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Time Listings, Jan. 11, 1960 | 1/11/1960 | See Source »

They had spent the evening among sharpies and shills and slick-talking swindlers dedicated to the ancient shopkeeper's art of conning the customer. But London's theater critics were delighted. When it opened in the West End last week, Wolf Mankowitz' brash, breezy new comedy, Make Me An Offer, rang up just the sort of sale the playwright was bargaining for. "When the British musical finally finds its feet," said the staid Financial Times, "we may well remember Make Me An Offer as a landmark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER ABROAD: More English Than the English? | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

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