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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After that, the book offers enough coats and hooks to fill a good-sized cloakroom. Meanwhile, the younger kids scrape and squabble, while the old folks lead lives of quiet exasperation: a mother dies:a father loses his job; a family moves to another town. No small-town girl herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Kathleen's Cloakroom | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

Kevin Roller is a fat, lowborn lecher who has piled up a smelly fortune publishing obscene comic books and now has bought into the respectable but slipping Primrose Press. Is there a Kevin Roller on Manhattan's publishers' row? He is, at worst, a composite: traits of his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Which Snake Pit? | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

In its charting of the ebb and flow of war's malignant tides, the movie ruthlessly sends its heroine into action for both sides; yet she proves to be neither turncoat nor indecisive fool nor coward. Dr. Helga Reinbeck (played with passionate intensity by Europe's fast-rising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 2, 1957 | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

As a spit-&-polish naval attache who takes over the refloated ship after the Amethyst's captain dies of his wounds, Richard Todd is so convincing that the movie conveys a real-thing flavor. It car ries all the blood-and-sweat conviction of a candid film chronicle made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 2, 1957 | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

To heighten the impact of these revelations, Cozzens feeds the reader key episodes from Arthur Winner's past with flashbacks so deft as to be intravenous. There is Lawyer Arthur Winner Sr., a dispassionate Victorian man of reason, his son's model and hero. An agnostic, he has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Hermit of Lambertville | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

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