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...bystanders are outstandingly innocent. The son (Richard Egan) of the mineowner is an aging squirt who romances the bottle instead of his wife, and makes rye grimaces at the facts of life. The lady herself (Margaret Hayes) is a country-club tramp who indulges in "two or three hobbies a year." The town librarian (Sylvia Sidney) is caught with a stolen purse by the manager of the bank (Tommy Noonan), whose civic indignation is somewhat dampened by the fact that she has caught him, too, in his secret sin (he peeps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, may 16, 1955 | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

TIME was probably not aware of it, but the two Egans pictured in its Feb. 28 edition (Father Willis Egan in Religion and Richard Egan under Cinema) are brothers. I knew both of them quite well both on and off the campus of the University of San Francisco and have not yet quite fully recovered from the experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 21, 1955 | 3/21/1955 | See Source »

...California Medical School. For the priests: the Rev. Victor White, a Dominican, professor of theology at Oxford and lecturer at Carl Jung's psychiatric institute in Zurich; the Rev. Mark Hurley, principal of Oakland's Bishop O'Dowd High School; and the Rev. Willis J. Egan, a Jesuit, professor of theology at the University of San Francisco. The moderator: Dr. Carl Jonas, both a Roman Catholic and a Freudian psychiatrist. The subject: guilt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Improvisation on Guilt | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

...with Jane Russell, toss into water and mix well into a $3,000,000 movie. Season the movie with submarine photography, a few sharks, two treasurehunting skin-divers and one sunken Spanish galleon. The result is likely to be a lot of bullion. By the time Skin-Divers Richard Egan and Gilbert Roland surface with the gold ingots, Jane has displayed her more notable talents in high-cut shorts, low-cut dresses, pajamas, a nightgown, one-piece and two-piece swim suits. Her clothes designer can hardly be held responsible for the shape the movie puts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 28, 1955 | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

Manhattan Adman Frank Egan explains that the new trend is simply an effort by sponsors to make commercials as painless as possible for viewers: "In radio you could use a musical bridge between the entertainment and the message so that the commercials didn't seem so abrupt and jarring. But on TV, if you interrupt audience attention to plunge into a commercial, viewers get resentful." For this reason nearly all TV hosts and masters of ceremonies are supposed to ease the way into the sales message...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Death of the Salesman? | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

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