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BRITISH Cartoonist Ronald Searle, who drew this week's summit cover (his first for TIME), is recognized as one of the best of Great Britain's talented covey of cartoonists. Searle won a national reputation before he was 30 for his madcap cartoons of "St. Trinian's Girls' School," whose bloomered, black-stockinged, altogether fiendish young ladies roasted oxen in their rooms, made dissenters walk the plank, fired machine guns down the halls ("Girls! Girls! A little less noise please"). He spread his humor through weekly features for Punch and London's News Chronicle, including...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, may 23, 1960 | 5/23/1960 | See Source »

...cannot match. Canny, veteran quarterbacks such as Philadelphia's Norm Van Brocklin, 33, and Pittsburgh's Bobby Layne, 32, still dominate their teams. With a tricky, lateraling attack, the Chicago Cardinals can erupt for clusters of points. Last year's champion Baltimore Colts can field a covey of stars led by young (26) Johnny Unitas, a onetime reject from the Pittsburgh Steelers who is rated the best quarterback in football, throws touchdown passes from the shelter of the league's finest offensive tackle, mammoth (6 ft. 3 in., 275 Ibs.) Jim Parker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Man's Game | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...mimeographing press association called Women's News Service polled a covey of newspaper women's-page editors (mostly females) across the U.S., learned that almost a quarter of the distaffers were dead set against the idea of any woman's election as U.S. Vice President. The rest named some favorites. Top choices: Maine's Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith, ex-Ambassador to Italy (1953-57) Clare Boothe Luce, Eleanor Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 5, 1959 | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

Organist & Theme. The result of Picasso's labors was a huge canvas done all in greys and a covey of brilliantly colored smaller paintings in which he explored details of specific figures. Last week critics and public got a first glimpse of them in reproduction, with the publication in Paris of a limited edition (to be published in the United States this spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The New in the Old | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

...wise old father had chosen who gets him in the end. All this is unfolded in an atmosphere that varies between Mr. Hammerstein's old Norman Rockwell whole someness and a new, Broadway, meretriciousness of second-rate sick jokes and falsie gags. Mechandizing the cuteness of a whole covey of little children (including one with a hula hoop, who got a big hand) provides the authors with one of several opportunities to be wholesome and meretricious at the same time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Flower Drum Song | 10/31/1958 | See Source »

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