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...line for praise, this time for his work as director and for his skillful performance in the starring role. As director, he is responsible for inventing a great deal of imaginative and humorous stage business, even though at the end of the piece things become a little chaotic. As star, in the role of a vainglorious playwright named Puff, he reveals a sure sense of comedy. He is particularly amusing in a long, aria-like speech that dissects the advertising techniques of the day with a surety that would make the denizens of Madison Avenue cringe...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: Oedipus and The Critic | 10/11/1956 | See Source »

Bungles & Breakdowns. The most nightmarish grind on the campaign circuit is the chaotic 18-hour-a-day Kefauver schedule. Often up at 5 a.m., the reporters go through a jumble of airport receptions, several press conferences, street rallies, appearances at fairs and carnivals. Through it all, they suffer the repetitive drip torture of Kefauver's appeals for "the little fellow" (irreverently known among the reporters as "the pygmy vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Campaign Trail | 10/8/1956 | See Source »

...relations with women were even more chaotic. All the great loves of his life were women much older than himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Letters from Leviathan | 10/8/1956 | See Source »

...conclusion of our journey." After 40 hours of debate and long years of dickering, India was going to get a new States Reorganization Bill, reapportioning the country into 14 large and viable states and six centrally run enclaves, e.g., the capital city of New Delhi. The bill repelled the chaotic factions who have cried for the fragmentation of India along the boundary lines of its 844 languages and dialects. The key move, thought up by Nehru's Socialist and independent opponents and gratefully grasped by him, was to fuse the hostile linguistic factions of Marathas (27.5 million) and Gujrati...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Journey's End? | 8/20/1956 | See Source »

...policeman is rarely popular, but reputable makers and marketers of foods and drugs are deeply grateful to FDA for bringing peace and order to a once chaotic business. Its top job has traditionally gone to career men, and industry has violently opposed any attempt by politicians to make it a patronage plum. Current FDA boss is George P. Larrick, 54, who entered the service as an inspector, was promoted to the commissionership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: There Ought to Be a Law | 7/9/1956 | See Source »

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