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Marilyn Monroe's unique charisma was the force that caused distant men to think that if only a well-intentioned, understanding person like me could have known her, she would have been all right. In death, it has caused women who before resented her frolicsome sexuality to join in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: Thrilled with Guilt | 8/17/1962 | See Source »

Their leaders are ingratiating bean brains. Major Richardson (David Niven) is a swaggerstick-thin Colonel Blimp. Captain Blasi (Italy's Alberto Sordi) is a soulful doleful duce. Each spends most of his time taking miscalculated risks and falling into the other's hands. Niven falls first, when his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Jollier than Reality | 8/10/1962 | See Source »

Comedy is having a comeback, and some of television's great names are returning after doleful absences. Jackie Gleason will revive The Honeymooners (with a new supporting cast) as part of his resurrected Jackie Gleason Show. Both Sid Caesar and Lucille Ball are returning in shows named after them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Coming Season | 7/27/1962 | See Source »

Before taking up with a cat, Greer advises the prospective owner to find a pet whose personality matches his own. Siamese, for example, are friendly and fun-loving, even though they sometimes go around muttering to themselves. The Manx is timid, dependent, and doleful to the point of martyrdom-ideal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Keeping Tabs on Tabby | 11/24/1961 | See Source »

Is U.S. Protestantism suffering from a surfeit of crapehangers ? The Rev. John Sutherland Bonnell, 68, of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, believes so. Mounting the pulpit last week, he sounded off against the "handwringing, breast-beating and doleful prophecies about the future of Protestantism" from the very churchmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Ravens on the Branch | 4/21/1961 | See Source »

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