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With its lost, disconsolate, straw-clutching outcasts, its bullying and later blinded magnate, its endless rain of symbolic and allegorical smallshot, its scarred and almost sceneryless universe, Waiting for Godot can be most variously interpreted-somewhat after the fashion of the blind men and the elephant. Under Godot's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Apr. 30, 1956 | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

The Post's sharpest cut into the elephant's hide appears daily on the editorial page and in 150 other U.S. papers: the brilliant political cartoon by Herblock, 46-year-old Chicago-born Herbert Lawrence Block, No. 1 U.S. cartoonist, two-time Pulitzer Prizewinner. A left-wing Democrat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Guest at Breakfast | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

In India the Maharaja of Jaipur was in his pink palace in his pink city, ready to greet American tourists, treat them to elephant rides and put them up in his guest house. In France's Dijon, knowing the U.S. tourists' unquenchable thirst for cold drinks, the Terminus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRAVEL: TRAVEL | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

Three-Ring Circus. In his capacity as mahout of the Republican elephant, Len Hall has one of the most sensitive jobs in politics. As G.O.P. chairman, Hall is the producer of a circus with three rings: the National Committee, which handles the presidential and vice presidential campaigns and maps out...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: The Mahout from Oyster Bay | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

Rehabilitation Needed. Yet there are a few signs of the strain. He suffers from recurrent headaches. Sometimes Gladys Hall wakes up in the early morning to see her husband lying in bed, staring at the ceiling as he worries his way through the day's problems. In the months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: The Mahout from Oyster Bay | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

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