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...Perfect Furlough. An engaging encyclopedia of comic cliches, well illustrated by Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA,TELEVISION,THEATER,BOOKS: Time Listings, Mar. 30, 1959 | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

...sees everything, good and bad. To know all is to forgive all, so I think that, from heaven's point of view, Stalin is safe." Just out of curiosity, did the Dean see anything amiss in the Soviet encyclopedia's devoting 78 lines to the Red Dean, only eight to Christ? "Well, you see, I'm alive, and Christ isn't, so it's only natural that they should print more about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 9, 1959 | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

...masters of movie comedy, have applied the formula with such style that the studio has been able to guarantee the customers exactly 287 (count 'em) laughs without fear of refund. And while the public rolls in the aisles, the professionals should take careful notice. Furlough is a definitive encyclopedia of comic cliche...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 9, 1959 | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

Crimson center Bob Foster was yesterday named to the All-Scholastic Ivy League football team by editors of the American Peoples Encyclopedia. Players on this team must all have a "B" or better average. Significantly, not one Yalie was nominated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foster Named Center On Scholastic All-Ivy | 1/7/1959 | See Source »

...bulk of German record buying. Mourns Munich Disk Jockey Werner Götze, a ripe 33: "With their clannish addiction to dress, slang and beat, they have become Germany's new, powerful, cultural fifth column, whose god is Elvis Presley, whose idols are their own stars, and whose encyclopedia is the comics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ROCK 'N1 ROLL: Real Schräg | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

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