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...rendered an individual unworthy of Curley's further attention. His attitude toward facts resembled that of the student of the earliest Byzantine or Russian history who, in the absence of evidence, let alone verification, must not only accept the meagre suppositions that come his way, but must mold them, conn them, fashion them, shape them, corrupt them, must spin a whole universe out of the air so as to have any at all; who, having done so, steps aside, and by means of subsequently sustained inattention, accords his creation the most vigilant protection...

Author: By Jonathan Beecher, | Title: The Harvard History of James M. Curley | 11/22/1958 | See Source »

Ground Stroke. In Windsor Locks, Conn., when the cops made broad insinuations about Kaston Gailius by testifying in court that when they nabbed him, his eyes were watery, his face was flushed and he could not pick up a coin from the floor, Gailius won an acquittal by explaining that sinus trouble had made him teary, he had been sunburned, and he was exhausted from a game of tennis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 17, 1958 | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

...went to bed, leaving Zanuck to shiver alone on the terrace in the autumn night. ¶ Sailors' eyes clicked like gyro-repeaters in a flank-speed turn as Cinemermaid Esther Williams, sheathed in tight red slacks and sweater, pranced aboard the Navy submarine U.S.S. Trout in New London, Conn. Purpose: to play hostess on NBC-TV's Omnibus documentary on submarine training. It was Producer Robert Saudek's idea, based on the theory that "many aspects of submarine navigation are similar to swimming." Esther, whose medium is cold water, poured plenty of it on officers' wives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: Cast of Characters | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

Married. Martha Raye, 42, singing comedienne; and Robert O'Shea, 31, Manhattan private eye, former Westport (Conn.) cop whose first wife filed an alienation-of-affections suit against Martha Raye; she for the sixth time, he for the second; by the mayor of Teaneck, N.J., in the mayor's living room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 17, 1958 | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

...Scarsdale, N.Y. 43 Newell, Franklin S. '59 HB 21 5.10 170 Brookline, Mass. 44 Haughie, Glenn E. '61 HB 19 5.11 185 Clarkfield, Minn. 45 Crosson, Frank A. '61 HB 19 5.11 173 W. Roxbury, Mass. 46 Egan, William J. '61 HB 19 6.0 185 New Haven, Conn. 47 Pescosolido, Richard J. '61 HB 20 5.7 165 Ipswich, Mass. 50 Mattimore, Bernard G. '61 C 19 6.0 195 Worcester, Mass. 51 Eliades, Peter G. '60 C 19 6.1 205 Lowell, Mass. 52 Foster, Robert F. '59 C 21 5.10 195 Princeton, N.J. 53 Christenson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard Squad | 11/15/1958 | See Source »

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