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Pearson's diplomatic derring-do won him the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize for "his powerful initiative, strength and perseverance displayed in attempting to prevent or limit war operations and restore peace." It was a high point in his career, but Suez also cost him his immunity to criticism carried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: A New Leader | 4/19/1963 | See Source »

All this gives promise of, nothing more than a predictable tapestry of hairbreadth hurry and Navy derring-do, suitable for eventual framing in Hollywood. But like many another literary ship before her, the San Pablo offers a readymade image of a larger society. Both as a licensed literary microcosm and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Showing the Flag | 1/11/1963 | See Source »

Thurs., Sept. 20 Wide Country (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). PREMIÈRE of a new series based on the derring-do of Rodeo Champion Mitch Guthrie.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sep. 21, 1962 | 9/21/1962 | See Source »

Come with Me. Henderson's derring-do (when stock prices are right), as well as his skillfully frugal management, have pyramided Sheraton in 25 years from a single money-losing hotel to a corporate giant with estimated assets of $400 million and 66 hotels scattered from Tel Aviv to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: Running to Cover | 7/13/1962 | See Source »

IN U.S. MOVIES: the accents are fairly grim, too. The plot of The Young Savages is straight from Hollywood's pasteboard jungle, but the documentary scenes of punks and finks roaming through Manhattan's tenement-glutted, garbage-strewn juvenile jungle carry the authority of the headlines. In The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Jun. 16, 1961 | 6/16/1961 | See Source »

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