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...most amusing moments in the play is John Coe's portrayal of a revivalist minister. Likewise played with a subtle sense of humour is the shipping clerk by Michael Linenthall. Patricia Leatham as a waitress who is our hero's extra-curricular love handles her role with a wonderful fay tenderness, Richard Gediman as president delivers a fine set speech on the wonders of the "industrial South...

Author: By Gerald E. Bunker, | Title: The Martyrdom of Roy Wilson | 1/14/1957 | See Source »

Detailed rules of the contests will be posted in dormitories, Fay and Agassiz...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe P.B.K. to Inaugurate Prizes | 12/12/1956 | See Source »

...audiences of that time enjoyed the satirical thrusts and hair-pulling matches. In this version, however, Producer Joe Pasternak has sugared everything up with pretty Metrocolor, with June Allyson, who plays the spirited heroine as a teary little dearie, and with a batch of sentimental tunes. Worse still, the Fay and Michael Kanin script carelessly tosses away one of the play's best ideas. There are men in the picture. In the play, men never appeared; it was as if the world were one vast, closed powder room. And though the scriptwriters have kept the play's plain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 5, 1956 | 11/5/1956 | See Source »

...Strike Clause. In Elizabeth, N.J., after she slapped a chef, was struck in return during a disagreement over an order of onions, Waitress Fay Martin won $5,200 damages in a ruling by a judge who called it "common knowledge" that "a woman's slap on the face of a grown man is not of such character as to require resistance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 27, 1956 | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

...undergoing a marked change and notable improvement. In the majority of these tales, whodunit is not the main point. Like all effective short stories, most of them rely on character, emotional impact and skillful writing. The collection includes some talented newcomers and examples by such practiced hands as William Fay, Craig Rice, John and Ward Hawkins and Rufus King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Mysteries | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

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