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...this way is a refreshing and salutary experience," says Yves Montand. No wonder. Of late, he has been assassinated in Z, tortured in The Confession and kidnaped and murdered in State of Siege, but in the comedy he is now filming in Italy, Le Grand Esco-griffe (an exuberant man too clever for his own good), Montand is permitted the luxury of survival. "This comedy is sublime," he says. Ridiculous, too: the hopelessly ill-fated kidnaper-star ends up stuck with the kidnapee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 26, 1976 | 7/26/1976 | See Source »

...Supreme Court refused to review Dorado, despite California Attorney General Thomas C. Lynch's urgent appeal that "the convictions of thousands of dangerous criminals may be in jeopardy under this ruling." The court's refusal may well mean that it wants to see more evidence of Esco-bedo's effects before it makes a final decision, but it leaves police across the country unable to tell whether they should follow the "hard" approach of Hartgreaves or the "soft" approach of Dorado...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Supreme Court: Still Waiting on Confessions | 6/11/1965 | See Source »

...first time he saw North Adams. Mass., Archibald Lee Moore had one thought in mind: to fight his fight and get out of town. That night, in July 1949. he was scheduled to meet a light heavyweight named Esco Greenwood, and Archie figured to make quick work of it. But then, as he recalls it, "I walked up the Mohawk Trail, daydreaming. I could look down from the mountains and see the town and the trees and I got to thinking that some day I would have the means to set up a real training camp for a real fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Archie's Return | 9/12/1955 | See Source »

Well Bedded. In San Francisco, Esco Brown, 50, won a divorce after complaining that his wife took 27 cats to bed with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 27, 1945 | 8/27/1945 | See Source »

Cohen has advanced Esco (against future dividends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR FRONT: Frank Cohen, Munitionsmaker | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

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