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If the Vice President is a strong character or has a political following independent of the President's, he can easily get into trouble. (Calhoun and Henry Wallace are two who got too big for their vice-presidential boots.) Most Vice Presidents, great and small, have accepted the apparently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE VICE PRESIDENCY: A Bridgebuiider | 1/18/1954 | See Source »

Paratrooper (Columbia) gains some freshness as a war picture by having Alan Ladd go through his deadpan heroics as a member of the British army. Ex-U.S. Captain Ladd pretends to be a Canadian and volunteers as a private in the paratroops. He soon learns that, no matter what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 11, 1954 | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

In the final hours of the night, Carmen and Aguado meet Manolo, the street boy, in a bar, and as Manolo looks at the girl, there shines in his eyes "something innocent, hopeless and impossible." Aguado takes them for a drive in his car. In the sierra above Madrid, he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spanish Fatalist | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

Big-boned, twelve and tenderhearted, Crescent Delahanty lives on a Southern California ranch, but spends her finest hours with King Arthur and Shelley. "The day dies, its burnished wrack burns in yon western sky," she tells herself as she watches a sunset. But Cress never writes this sort of thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Life with Daughter | 1/4/1954 | See Source »

The Prescott Proposals (by Howard Lindsay & Russel Grouse) has a highly topical setting, one that is far more modern than its plot. Treating of the U.N.-and of Katharine Cornell as a U.S. delegate with proposals for enlarging "areas of agreement" between nations-the play fitfully eyes a serious theme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New Plays in Manhattan, Dec. 28, 1953 | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

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