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...coffin rises. Inside are five words: THIS IS RESERVED FOR YOU. The sound track takes over. "Ladies and gentlemen, you are about to see a motion picture that may kill you. We guarantee free burial service to anyone who dies of fright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Stiff Competitors | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

...help promote an improbable trend back to "good music," station WJQS in Jackson, Miss, put some 5,000 rock 'n' roll records in a coffin, hauled the gone stuff to a local shopping center for a symbolic funeral service. Unfortunately, the disks were not buried but passed out gratis to a horde of screaming teenagers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Silly Air | 7/14/1958 | See Source »

...special study mission, Congressmen Hays and Coffin interviewed some 125 leading Canadians in Montreal and Ottawa, heard familiar complaints about U.S. tariffs, oil import quotas, and price-cutting in sales of surplus wheat. They also found a nagging worry that U.S. corporations are gaining too much control over Canadian resources...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Deeper Than Dollars | 5/19/1958 | See Source »

...Humorless Cry-Baby." For a few other newspapers that carped at the Hays-Coffin findings, the Ottawa Journal had only mock-serious despair. "The trouble, apparently, is that some stroke of cruel misfortune has placed Canadians, wise, virtuous, altruistic, full of grace, all but perfect in their thoughts, acts and general conduct, alongside a people who are imperfect, who lack our wisdom, idealism, grace and near-perfect behavior, leaving us in a mess. Are we not in danger of losing all sense of proportion-becoming in the process a sort of humorless cry-baby of the Western world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Deeper Than Dollars | 5/19/1958 | See Source »

...finds an obstructive wall of townspeople at the railway station. In the clutch of material self-interest, the town goes in for moral self-deception, until at a public meeting Schill is condemned to death. With a billion-mark check for his killers, and with Schill's coffin borne before her, Claire goes away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, may 19, 1958 | 5/19/1958 | See Source »

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