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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pursuing the ideal of high fashion, Edna Chase looked more like a society matron than a dedicated editor. Although she often joked about her large mouth ("Do put thy hand up when thee smiles." her mother had warned), she had a refined beauty plus forthright personal charm, and dressed, as she preached, with simple elegance. She was first married to Frank D. Chase, a hotel manager and the father of her only child, Actress and Author Ilka Chase. This marriage ended in divorce, and she later married Engineer Richard Newton, who died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Well-Bred Magazine | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

...publicity men who billed Wee Geordie as an uproarious comedy did it an injustice. The film is not in the bubbling broth of a wee tradition of such films as Tight Little Island. Instead, its value is in the nearly dream-like simplicity and charm of civilization in a Scottish highland glen, and in the excellent photography of bonnie lochs and braes. There are also neat touches of comedy, but they seem subordinate...

Author: By Larry Hartmann, | Title: Wee Geordie | 3/20/1957 | See Source »

...funny chase that mixes the Marx Brothers with Krafft-Ebing. This blurs but does not erase the underlying sensuality of Humbert's admittedly perverse tastes, for he is drawn only to what he calls "nymphets"-near-adolescent girls of mysterious characteristics and an "elusive, shifty, soul-shattering, insidious charm." The insidious charm of Dolores, whom Humbert dubs Lolita, lurks in the eye of the beholder, for she is a Coke-fed, juke-box-operated brat with a headful of movie mags for a brain. To stay close to her, Humbert marries her widowed mother and is ready to murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pnin & Pan | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

Alonso's central idea is very interesting. His Don Juan is neither Mozart's energetic young lover proud enough to defy God, nor Shaw's immortal philosopher. Instead, he is an ageing man who, even though as the son of an angel he possesses the power to charm all woman, has never found a single woman he could love. The play shows his last attempt to find love, and its pattern is the tragedy of hope in the face of certain defeat...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: The Death of Don Juan | 3/15/1957 | See Source »

Hardest campaigner of all was Pibulsonggram himself. An ardent admirer of U.S. political methods, the 59-year-old Premier zipped about the country in his green Thunderbird, handing out boxes of "Pibul matches" and replicas of his personal Buddha charm. Since Pibul's countrymen reckon that any man who has survived one kidnaping, two attempted assassinations by snooting and one by poisoning must have supernatural luck, the charm went over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THAILAND: A Question of Technique | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

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