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Outlook: A strong believer in the proposition that ecumenical cooperation, now functioning well at the top level, should be extended to the grass roots. He told the assembly: "We've been concerned here with the overhead of cooperation. We've been on dress parade . . . I am concerned in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: NATIONAL COUNCIL'S NEW PRESIDENT | 12/22/1952 | See Source »

IN Warsaw as a child of four, Landowska expressed herself on the piano while other children were learning to talk. Her first teacher, recognizing her precocious virtuosity, let her play whatever music pleased her. But "a stern, dry man" took his place, and "my delightful roamings through the gavottes and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personality, Dec. 1, 1952 | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

The only wit in the show lurks in the lyrics by Ogden Nash, and fortunately. Miss Davis recites rather than sings the best of them. The outrageous rhymester's lines are deft and often delightful, particularly when coupling words like respectable and "Toulouse Lantrectable." Nash's lyrics are set to...

Author: By R.e. Oldenburg, | Title: Two's Company | 11/21/1952 | See Source »

The confidence Claire Bloom felt about herself at 14 is now, seven years later, shared by a majority of the critics on both sides of the Atlantic. Even those who did not like Charles Chaplin's self-conscious new film, Limelight, showered Claire, his leading lady, with such adjectives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: She Knew What She Wanted | 11/17/1952 | See Source »

De Sica heightens his fantasy with a cast of unbelievable, but highly amusing characters, a grouchy tramp who longs to possess a silk hat, an effervescent, scatterbrained old woman, who dies and becomes an equally bouncing angel, and a weak-kneed general. To put across such unreal nonsense as Miracle...

Author: By Michael Maccoby, | Title: Miracle in Milan | 11/14/1952 | See Source »

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