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...these qualities churn together in the play's last scene, which mingles moving speeches and bathos to wind up tangled in a resigned, yet utopian conclusion. The Rain Never Falls is--fatal word--an interesting play...

Author: By Joseph L. Featherstone, | Title: The Rain Never Falls | 12/1/1961 | See Source »

Near Milk Street in Boston, a fruit peddler keeps his little radio nestled among the purple plums, and startled passers-by always pause to stare at the singing fruit. Small boys on bicycles churn along the roads with radios topped with long whip antennas (they used to carry fishing rods). On a downtown Dallas street recently, pedestrians arched their brows at an open manhole from which floated the ball-game scores. Chinese listeners in San Francisco may soon-if the electronic wrinkles are ironed out-watch the video version of Gunsmoke while their radios blast out a Cantonese translation, courtesy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leisure: The Bleatniks | 8/11/1961 | See Source »

...Mier's cabin, where we find that he too has had an unfortunate experience in love but that he, poor devil, has his mother along with him. Mrs. Craig is a little older than John Van Mier, but it would seem that the propellors are finally beginning to churn, all be it slowly and methodically...

Author: By Peter A. Derow, | Title: Sail Away | 8/10/1961 | See Source »

...Lawrence Seaway is an engineering masterpiece designed to produce economic miracles. It hasn't quite. In the confident hope that a deepwater channel would churn up an international trading boom in the North American heartland, Canada and the U.S. sank $442 million into the Seaway. Last week, as the Great Lakes shipping season approached its crest (unaffected by the coastal shipping strike), the two-year-old Seaway had lost some of its glamour. Says Milwaukee Port Director Harry C. Brockel: "It hasn't been as spectacular as expected. But then, a lot of people were looking for wonders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Waterways: The Unspectacular St. Lawrence | 7/14/1961 | See Source »

...bubble in each leg-and there, with his improvised float, he bobbed in the black sea. Isbell's lights faded in the distance ("I guess that was about the alonest I ever felt"). For a while, he tried swimming, but every time he moved he would churn up the phosphorescence and worry about sharks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Luckiest Afloat | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

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