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Pray Boru! Immodest as his words may sound, Shoriki is right. His optometrists consider him terribly myopic, but time after time he has proved himself dazzlingly farsighted. In the 1930s he introduced besuboru to Japan by bringing Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmy Foxx and Lefty O'Doul to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publishers: Bigger & Better than Anyone | 5/24/1963 | See Source »

Mr. Hamlin, I say, could have left the show to Falstaff. But Mr. Hamlin obviously has a conscience and something of a recognition that actors in Henry IV must interpret their characters with a really careful consistency. Hal, Hotspur, and King Henry in particular are always talking about themselves and...

Author: By Robert W. Gordon, | Title: Henry IV, Part One | 5/10/1963 | See Source »

The quality of Alfred Whitney Griswold was that he gave vividness and authority to ideals that other men often make trite or fanatic. The cliche-cursed goal of "excellence" in education seemed credible and attainable when Yale's President Griswold spoke of it in brief and reasonable words. Academic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colleges: The Witty Reformer | 4/26/1963 | See Source »

Drifting aimlessly like a man without a country, Bidault today is a pathetic fugitive who drinks too much and talks too much. With the kidnaping of ex-Colonel Antoine Argoud in Munich five weeks ago, and the virtual removal from active operations of Jacques Soustelle, the S.A.O.'s political...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Finis for S.A.O.? | 4/5/1963 | See Source »

The Liberator, by John L. Thomas. The great abolitionist emerges from this objective biography as a fanatic who infuriated his fellow abolitionists as much as the slaveowners.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mar. 8, 1963 | 3/8/1963 | See Source »

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