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...their own box-office personalities. Bogart attempts a dashing and impossible escape from the Arabs, and his nonsense bravado is great. Lorre, playing a dubious character named Julius O'Hara, intrigues around wonderfully. Lollobrigida is a moody and bosomy Italian who faints often. Robert Morley and the other two con men are in the style of henchmen in The Ladykillers...
...they prove nothing else, the arguments over Harvard participation in the National Student Association at least dispel the Silent Generation myth. The pro-and-con has been noisy and thoughtful, and today's referendum will reflect the views of a relatively well-informed electorate...
EIGHTEEN months ago (April i, L. 1957), in a cover story on Air Force Missileman Bernard Schriever, TIME reported that Air Force scientists con sidered sending an unmanned rocket to the moon a worthwhile project, and estimated that they could be ready to shoot in 1 8 months. Last week tireless, punctual Major General Schriever and his men sent their rocket - Pioneer -far out into space. For the story of their hopes, disappointments and accomplishments, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...however uneven and overlong, A Touch of the Poet has impact in a theater whose playwrights generally stand far closer to Con Melody than to O'Neill, in gaudily yet transparently trying to pass for what they are not. O'Neill's stubborn force and burdened, honest feeling help light the way of American drama even when he himself is losing it. And the production, as directed by Harold Clurman, sheds helpful light as well. Eric Portman's Con is often unintelligible, but it conveys a dynamic power of acting, a demonic possession of the role...
...Broadway The Music Man, now Broadway's hottest ticket, is a triumph of Meredith Willson's one-man showmanship (book, lyrics, music) and an exuberant romp for Robert Preston as the itinerant con-man who invades an Iowa town and conjures up a fine, corn-fed band...