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...Truman Capote and Gian-Carlo Menotti (written by Comic Ronny Graham), though clever, have not enough magic in their madness. Even Boston Beguine, well sung by the show's topranker, Alice Ghostley, should mingle Harvard and Haiti more hilariously. The show is funniest where the spoofing is broadest: Paul Lynde as a battered African explorer turned lecturer; and "After Canasta-What?" daffily prophesying a card game requiring adding machines and traffic lights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Revue in Manhattan, may 26, 1952 | 5/26/1952 | See Source »

...days after Rusk's resignation, George McGhee, 39, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern, South Asian and African Affairs, exchanged one of the hottest and broadest portfolios in Washington for appointment as Ambassador to Turkey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Through the Turnstile | 12/17/1951 | See Source »

...newsmen in Boston he flatly denied party membership: "I try to be a Marxist in the broadest sense." But when he was later summoned before the House Un-American Activities Committee, Struik stood on his constitutional privileges against selfincrimination, and refused to say whether or not he was a member of the Communist Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Struik Case | 12/17/1951 | See Source »

...gratifying that at last the Administration is seriously considering plans to revise the whole system of medical care. In these plans, however, the University must not over-look what should be the central principle behind a medical insurance plan: the provision of not only the broadest, but also the most equitable, coverage without any substantial increase in the present $30 a year medical...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fees and Need | 12/12/1951 | See Source »

...20th Century composer with 18th Century ambitions. In most of his 13 operas (best known: The Jewels of the Madonna, Secret of Suzanne), he aimed for classic form and comic elegance. At his best, he came close to being the poor man's Mozart; at his broadest, a kind of roughhewn Rossini. Last week he was Manhattan's newest opera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: First-Class Piccalilli | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

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