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...Senate is not future-minded, Mr. White emphasizes. It values caution and tradition. It scorns conformity. It is unimpressed with the success of which a man like Charles E. Wilson is so proud. "Any damn fool," White quotes a Senator's recent comment "can make a million dollars." The Senate is not interested in speed, or in majority rule, or in bigness for its own sake...

Author: By Victor K. Mcelheny, | Title: Citadel | 1/17/1957 | See Source »

...important play-maker position. He has a good one hander from outside when he is "on," having scored over 20 points on several occasions, but on many nights, for an unexplainable reason he cannot get anywhere near the rim. If Hastings can fulfill Wilson's confidence, Harvard may fool a number of teams this year...

Author: By Bernard M. Gwertzman, | Title: Basketball Varsity Faces Tough Season | 12/4/1956 | See Source »

...last week hysterically joined the weird posthumous cult of James Dean (TIME, Sept. 3), by featuring the late young actor on three shows and two networks. Harvest, starring Dorothy Gish and Ed Begley, reappeared on NBC's Robert Montgomery Presents; I'm a Fool, with Natalie Wood, on General Electric Theater (CBS); and The Unlighted Road was shown on CBS's Schlitz Playhouse of Stars for the third time. All three shows exploited the Dean legend for frankly commercial purposes. "He's hotter than anybody alive," cried one NBC executive. The pulse-takers backed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Dean Cult | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

...freedom of the press: "Newspapers have the legal right to make fools of themselves, but the newspaper's critics and readers also have the right to attack it for making a fool of itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Old Acquaintance | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

While Pirogov and most of the others are loudly verbalizing their predicaments or laying cluttered schemes, I. Koslovsky, as the fool, offers the film's most subtle performance. He appears just twice--first to accuse Boris in a soft, demented idiot's song and then at the end to lament Russia's unrule. Boris Godunov has come and gone, Dmitri has left the land in flames and he, too, will soon be murdered; nothing has changed...

Author: By Jonathan Beecher., | Title: Boris Godunov | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

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