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...Esther Williams was fed up with television-too much crawl, not enough free style-and she said so in a newspaper interview, complaining that talentless network executives had all but foundered an aquatic show she had done for NBC earlier in the summer. It didn't even matter to her that the show had won one of the highest ratings of the summer: its mediocrity pained her. To Critic John Crosby, this was his cup of chlorine, and last week he took over where Critic Williams had left off. In his New York Herald Tribune column, he expanded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Crosby v. NBC | 9/19/1960 | See Source »

...malaria. To her, the answer lay in Jeremiah's second question. In Jerusalem there were only twelve doctors; in all Palestine only 45. On the Feast of Purim in February 1912, Henrietta Szold rallied U.S. women Zionists into an organization she called Hadassah (original Hebrew name for Queen Esther), made the betterment of Palestine's health its prime goal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: In Esther's Name | 8/15/1960 | See Source »

...Esther Williams at Cypress Gardens (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A musical soak opera co-starring Fernando Lamas and Joey Bishop with Producer Williams. Color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA,TELEVISION,THEATER,BOOKS | 8/8/1960 | See Source »

...Aline Bernstein, who became Esther Jack in The Web and the Rock and You Can't Go Home Again, did have a husband, although the biography skips by him in one hurried sentence. Theodore Bernstein looked away while his wife entered wholeheartedly into a love affair with the 25-year-old Wolfe, set him up in a studio on Manhattan's Eighth Street, cooked gourmet meals for him while he wrote, helped add to the slim support he was getting from his mother and from his teaching job at New York University, and above all gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Legend of a Giant | 7/11/1960 | See Source »

...ESTHER LILLY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 20, 1960 | 6/20/1960 | See Source »

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