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There are very nice songs like There's a Small Hotel, but Rodgers gave the show a ballet rather than top-drawer show music, and Hart gave it lyrics that tend to shout their cleverness. It is the Rodgers-Hart-Abbott libretto, however, that lays a curse upon the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Musical in Manhattan | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

A strange vehicle rolled down Denver's Ivanhoe Street one day last week and pulled to a stop in front of No. 626. It had once been a bus until Mrs. Ellen Harris, G.O.P. candidate for Congress in Colorado's First District, gave it the jawbreaking name of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Lady with a Doughnut | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

BETWEEN THE ELEPHANT'S EYES!, by Colonel Robert L. Scott Jr. (243 pp.; Dodd, Mead; $3.75).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Coexistence with Giants | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

Colonel Scott, who told in his wartime bestseller, God Is My Co-Pilot, how he bagged Japanese planes now has spun an ingratiating yarn about how he bagged African big game. After dispatching the usual lion, leopard and elephant, Scott tracked Samburu, an almost legendary six-ton, ancient bull elephant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Coexistence with Giants | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

NORTH TO DANGER, by Virgil Burford as told to Walt Morey (254 pp.; John Day $3.75) makes a fine companion piece to Scott's elephant adventure. Diver Burford spent years in Alaska, mostly pirating salmon from cannery-owned traps or diving to the ocean floor to mend the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Coexistence with Giants | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

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