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...citizens with a firm grip on French and British history may remember, when it comes to Mexico, little more than the cinema-celebrated names of Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata, and the conquistador Hernán Cortés. Few are aware that in the past three decades Mexico, historically unstable (see box), has stirred itself, put away its pistols and begun an explosion of industrialization that has pulled one-third of the once-somnolent population into a new middle class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: The Paycheck Revolution | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

Onstage at Manhattan's Cort Theater, greying, broad-jawed Actor Ralph Bellamy, 53, brilliantly plays the strong-minded young Politician Franklin D. Roosevelt in Dore Schary's Sunrise at Campobello. Offstage, for the past six years Actor Bellamy has performed an even tougher role: two-term president of the 10,000-member Actors' Equity, A.F.L.-C.I.O...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Actors' Choice | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

...CORT...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 25, 1957 | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

Papermate. In Tucson, Ariz., Patrolman William Anderson started to write out a ticket when he noticed the words "i am in cort" (sic) scribbled on a piece of paper on the windshield, left the ticket with another note: "I am in the street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 25, 1957 | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

...best popular song around, though, is Mickey and Sylvia's "Love is Strange" with intriguing lyrics and an exceptionally frantic instrumental background of electric guitar notes effectively capture the spirit of the age. Songs with more --- lyrics are Hadda Brook's "Old Man River" and Bob Cort's "It takes a Worried Man to Sing a Worried Blues...

Author: By Bryce E. Nelson, | Title: Popular Music Today | 2/13/1957 | See Source »

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