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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next day, when the full trial finally got under way, Podola coolly persisted in his disclaimer: "I do not remember the crime for which I stand accused ... I am unable to answer the charges." The jury spent only 38 minutes in arriving at a verdict of guilty. Covering his wig...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Verdict on Podola | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

For a man who has managed to pass himself as a military surgeon, a psychology professor, a college dean, a cancer researcher, an assistant prison warden and a Trappist monk (TIME, June 29), acting seemed a logical career. But after a few days on the set of The Hypnotic Eye...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: Who's Been Had? | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

The most improbably successful tunesmith in the U.S. last week was a genial, buckskin-fringed character out of Timbo, Ark. (pop. 100) named Jimmie Driftwood. Six Driftwood royalty-winners-Soldier's Joy, Battle of Kookamonga, Tennessee Stud, Sal's Got a Sugar Lip, The Battle of New Orleans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pop Records | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

Two seasons ago, an unknown author named William Gibson, an unknown actress named Anne Bancroft, a television producer named Fred Coe and a director named Arthur Penn reached Broadway with a two-character play, Two for the Seesaw. It was such a solid hit that it is still running today...

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: The Miracle Worker | 10/2/1959 | See Source »

The Miracle Worker is reminiscent of another play about a famous recovery from handicap, Dore Schary's Sunrise at Campobello. Both have the advantage of a ready-made, well-known story, of ready-made audience sympathy. But Gibson's task is a far more demanding one: while Schary could work...

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: The Miracle Worker | 10/2/1959 | See Source »

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