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Spotty pitching and butterfingered fielding still keep the Senators in the second division, but no one takes liberties any longer. Says Yankee Manager Casey Stengel: "You can't fool with those long knockers; it's like you keep lighting matches in a fireworks factory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fireworks Factory | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

...filled his text with references to songs. Of course we can't have singing without dancing too. I'll advertise my version as 'a music and dance extravaganza of Twelfth Night.' [Webster's Dictionary defines 'extravaganza' as something "wildly irregular."] Malvolio has a phrase in the play, "the fools' zanies." I'll just interpret that as "the Fool's zanies" and create two new characters, a singing zany and a dancing zany, to accompany Feste the Fool; and the three of them will provide a running counterpoint throughout the show...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Twelfth Night | 7/16/1959 | See Source »

Liquid hydrogen is rugged stuff to fool with, so cold (boiling point: -252.7° C. at atmospheric pressure) that steel cracks on sudden contact. It must be elaborately refrigerated or it will flash into vapor. Even a small leak is highly explosive. The 150 gal. in Berkeley's chamber have the explosive power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: 72 Inches of Bubbles | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

...hear the truth, 'cause that's all the blues is"). But when she is allowed to sing, as in Empty Bed Blues, she belts out some familiar and gutty reflections: "Let me warn you/If you've gotcha some good lovin'/Don't be a fool and go and spread the news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Jazz Records | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

...wife Mary (Phyllis Calvert) into a shabby affair with a frustrated bookseller, Clive Root (Paul Scofield). In a scene of Congrevous farce, the lovers are caught by Rhodes, but con their way to freedom. Eventually, Rhodes learns the truth, and Greene suddenly, boldly reveals the decent clod beneath a fool's veneer. Unable to live without his wife, he shamelessly offers to share her with the bookseller. At play's end, Mary and Clive prepare for a cold assignation in shabby rooms, already fearing that she will inevitably and finally escape to .the warming boredom of her husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER ABROAD: Black Comedy | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

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