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Last War. It was Von Wiegand's last war, but far from the end of his career. In 1945, he flashed a perceptive alarm to the West about the "Red Russian tidal flood . . . The war has loosened upon Europe the most powerful imperialistic force since Napoleon-totalitarian, Communist Soviet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Larger Than Life | 6/16/1961 | See Source »

The Secret Ways (Heath; U-l), from the thriller novel by Scotland's Alistair MacLean, is, like most of his works (H.M.S. Ulysses, The Guns of Navarone), a derring-documentary that celebrates courage-for-a-cause. Hero Richard Widmark starts out believing that "everybody's learned to live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Derring-Documentary | 5/26/1961 | See Source »

Allan Kirby is an old proxy fighter himself, but in the past he was able to do his battling by proxy: he supplied the capital while the fighting was done by his more flamboyant partner, Financier Robert Young. While Young killed himself two years ago, Kirby had no choice but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Proxy Fighter by Proxy | 12/12/1960 | See Source »

They are the dashing, derring-do boys of the National Football League, a tight little elite of halfbacks who survive by speed of foot and wit in a jungle of brute force. Although they may weigh 190 Ibs. or more, they are seldom risked in the crunch of line bucks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Artful Dodgers | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

His prose is Welsh; he can be language-drunk or sly with bawdry, as Dylan Thomas was when he named the village in Under Milk Wood "Llareggub." As for the roarious Jethro, he is engaging as a boy, but loses credibility as he grows older; he is forever lapsing into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Oct. 24, 1960 | 10/24/1960 | See Source »

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