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...drivel," "said Robert Muller in the Daily Mail. Said the Daily Express' Herbert Kretzmer: "The Cigarette Girl quickly qualified as the most dismal and abysmal heap of rubbish to be mounted in London-in the sacred name of enterainment-in living memory." The play was a smoked-out butt after six performances, and Playwright Home looked down in anger. "Critics," he said with icy disdain, "attack anything they think comes from the Establishment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater Abroad: You Can't Go, Home, Again | 7/6/1962 | See Source »

...almost all its models. The Chrysler 300 will acquire a new sheet-metal skin and squared-off rear that give its lines a handsome simplicity. Plymouth will switch to a Thunderbird-like roof, will also square off its 1962 rear end-irreverently known in Detroit as the "duck butt." The Valiant, adding a convertible to its line, will grow 2 in. and abandon the European styling it has worn for the past three years in favor of more rectangular lines. In a confusing exchange of identities, this year's Dart will grow 6 in. (to an overall length...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: The Right Formula | 6/29/1962 | See Source »

...Russians, Nikita Khrushchev. Alas for unlucky Pierre-he never had a chance. From the moment he was met by Aleksei Adzhubei, editor of Izvestia and Khrushchev's son-in-law, the swart, short, 36-year-old ex-reporter from San Francisco found himself up to his cigar butt in fast moving, stomach-stuffing Soviet hospitality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Unlucky Pierre | 6/1/1962 | See Source »

...there's still a chance. The Crimson has now won 7 and lost 2 in E.I.B.L. play, while Army is on top--at least for the moment--with a 7-1 record. Butt the Cadets must beat favored Navy (5 wins, 1 loss) to clinch the flag. If the Middies win, they still have to take two more league contests to take the title...

Author: By Hendrik Hertzberg, | Title: Yale Nine Stops Crimson Title Bid | 5/21/1962 | See Source »

Draped across the bars of chute No. 3 at the National Finals Rodeo in Dallas, the cowpoke stared coldly at a mottled grey bronc, puffed an inch-long butt, and spat contemptuously into the dirt. "Keep your eyes open," warned a bystander. "That Blue Boy's a rank old s.o.b." Nodding brusquely, Kenny Mc Lean hiked up his scuffed leather chaps, swung over the rail, settled gingerly into the saddle, and in the awkward tradition of rodeo riding, he dug his spurs hard into Blue Boy's neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Roughriding Rookie | 1/12/1962 | See Source »

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