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...straight-shooting Weidman-Abbott book weaves deftly in and out of the song numbers, and the lower they descend for their theme, the higher they mount in effectiveness. The boys in the back room are amusingly kidded in a lilting Politics and Poker; graft is hilariously drubbed in a dittylike Little Tin Box. Even more zipful are a pair of production numbers, a rousing electioneering street dance, and a fine 1920s high-kicking chorus line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical on Broadway, Dec. 7, 1959 | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

Fourteen enthusiastic House teams, including the champions of soccer, touch and tackle football will face their Yale counterparts this afternoon in the traditional per-Yale football game contests. J.V. and freshman football, and freshman soccer squads will also descend on New Haven today for their final games of the season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House, College Teams Face Yale In Climactic Contests of Season | 11/20/1959 | See Source »

...have just been advised that there is a break in the clouds in the Schenectady area. We're going to take you to that break and descend. Just follow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: The Good Shepherd | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

...blackmailer who wants enough money to live for three days like an American tourist. Thus the film alternates between unsuccessful farce and success-formula soap opera, but it never quite lives up to its pressagentry as "twists of tender pathos sublimated by laughter before the pathos can descend to bathos." The Man Who Understood Women is bathos cubed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Man Who Understood Women | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

...broke the stillness of the hills, but the Communist insurgents were finding the simpler weapons of rumor, exaggeration and bluff sufficient to keep their campaign going. Operating in little bands of 5 to 25 men, they sent heralds ahead to frighten villages with stories of Communist hordes about to descend, of real or imaginary atrocities committed near by, of the fall of a government fort. Sometimes they rowed back and forth across a river to give the impression of large numbers. Sometimes they herded villages of people before them to make an attack seem bigger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LAOS: Spreading the Word | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

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