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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...word jockey's favorite topic: women. Baiting them-as shrewish, lazy, selfish-is his technique for keeping them tuned in and writing 1,500 letters a week. An expert on the subject after five marriages, Gibson says: "Women are really happiest when they are being abused. It's impossible to keep a woman comfortable and happy at the same time. I've lost more wives that way. I throw the verbal stones and the women lick their wounds and lie back in ecstasy." Sample stone: "Nothing makes a woman look more like a bag than wearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Word Jockey | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

...plays anything from Bach to esoteric jazz. There have been concerts on the Royal Watusi drums, and by the Balinese Gamelan Orchestra. Drama ranges from Eumenides to Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, poetry readings from Robert Frost to Allen (Howl) Ginsberg, lecturers from former Amherst President Alexander Meiklejohn to Alan Watts, expert on Zen Buddhism. Once a week Russian Specialist William Mandel reports for 15 minutes on what Russians are being told by their newspapers and magazines. No cause is too controversial to get a hearing. Example: KPFA gave air time to Congressman Robert Condon to defend himself against charges of being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Highbrow's Delight | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

...said in Parliament that the Assembly president deems "defamatory to Parliament or its members." Opposition Deputies protested that the law could be used to prevent publication of legitimate criticism of the government. The Istanbul newspaper Cumhuriyet sent a copy of the statute to Professor Husein Kubali, a Sorbonne-trained expert on constitutional law at Istanbul University, asked for his opinion. On strictly legal grounds, Kubali held that the statute was unconstitutional because "it perverted the principle of freedom of expression" as denned by the Turkish constitution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Silence, Please | 2/17/1958 | See Source »

...Soldier Doher took his loss like a gentleman, but such defeats arouse national protest in France. Recently an aviation expert flubbed three questions in a row. His Brawn, Swimming Champion Aldo Eminente, saved him twice. But the strain on Aldo's stroke was too keen. On his third try, Aldo slowed down and their joint jackpot went down the pool drain. From the nation's 700,000 TV rooms came scores of outraged calls and letters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Brains v. Brawn | 2/17/1958 | See Source »

Heirline. In Milwaukee, Jack Gasdorf, 34, accused of keeping a wife and three children in one spot, a girl friend and two children in another, explained, "I'm an expert liar," said he felt no anxieties about prison because "I always wanted a short haircut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 10, 1958 | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

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