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...Hers (by Fay & Michael Kanin) uses a comic framework as neat and narrow as a coffin. Written by a pair of playwrights who are married, it concerns a pair who are divorced (after two Broadway failures). In a freak legal wrangle, because they have both thought up a play with the same plot, they get a court order to write it together. Propinquity makes hearts grow fonder, and they decide, if the new play clicks, to remarry. Then they decide that love outweighs success. and to remarry whatever happens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Jan. 18, 1954 | 1/18/1954 | See Source »

...School of Public Administration, is in charge of applications from the University. Mrs. Wilma A. Kerby Miller, Dean of Instruction at Radcliffe, is supervising 'Cliffe applications. Prospective candidates must file applications by Feb. 10. These interested may obtain forms and additional information either at 9 Bow St. or at Fay House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ford Foundation Gives Subsidy to Behavioral Study | 1/12/1954 | See Source »

Thomas E. Dewey decided that New York's Acting Lieutenant Governor Arthur Wicks was unfit, because of his visits to imprisoned Labor Racketeer Joseph Fay (TIME, Oct. 12). Promptly, Dewey called a special session of the legislature to boot out Wicks as majority leader and temporary president of the state senate. The Dewey forces thought that they had ihe support of nearly all the 37 Republican senators. But Dewey's quick-kick attempt was blocked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Revolt Squashed | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

...they won the governorship: "Public disgust" over the scandals that had touched the New Jersey G.O.P. The last straw, they thought, was Republican Candidate Troast's admission that he had asked New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey to commute the sentence of Labor Extortionist Joey Fay. Winner Meyner (rhymes with signer) disagreed heartily with the interpretation that got him headlines across the nation. He thought he had won on local issues, didn't think his victory was any reflection on the Eisenhower Administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Word from Jersey | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

...looked and sounded much like Frank Smith, Sergeant Friday's deadpan Dragnet partner. Troast suffered his roundest wallop early in October, when newspapers broke the story that Troast had asked New York's Tom Dewey to commute the sentence of Labor Extortionist Joey Fay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: An Inspiration to Democrats | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

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