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Spencer Tracy plays the stranger, a man endowed with the resourcefulness of Robinson Crusoe, to say nothing of an incredible judo chop. Robert Ryan is the principal meanie, but his neanderthal sidekicks supply most of the diabolic appeal. Anne Francis contributes the moist lipstick.

Author: By Paul A. Buttenwieser, | Title: Bad Day at Black Rock | 2/24/1959 | See Source »

If Nikita Khrushchev was TIME'S 1957 choice for Man of the Year, then he doubly deserves your selection for 1958. No other man dominated the world's news more, albeit to the disgust of free men and nations, than this sly, scheming, abusive, arrogant, warmongering, vodka-guzzling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 15, 1958 | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

"Poisoning," his doctor at home briskly diagnoses. Despite some lingering fears that he was the victim of an electronic trick by a BBC man called Angel (who may or may not have worn a beard), or had become the subject of diabolic possession, Pinfold settles back happily to a quiet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Self-inflicted Satire | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

Brats or Geniuses? Many have asked their whys of the Leopold-Loeb crime, and given answers ranging from "spoiled brats" to diabolic possession. Levin, who was an undergraduate contemporary of Leopold and Loeb at the University of Chicago in 1924, has offered a new version after 32 years' thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder & the Supermen | 11/12/1956 | See Source »

France, lately in bondage to nine-year-old Poetess Minou Drouet, is currently applauding Belgium's Anne Bodart for a charming book of fables, most of which she wrote when she was 14. She had to wait until she reached a mellow 17 before her work was published in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Little Women at Work | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

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