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...Year. On the morning of July 11, President Eisenhower drafted a formal proposal that Khrushchev visit the U.S. and suggested that the President travel to the Soviet Union. The letter was flown to New York by U.S. Deputy Under Secretary of State Robert Murphy and Deputy Assistant Secretary Foy Kohler, placed in the hands of the Soviet Union's First Deputy Premier Frol Kozlov, about to return to Russia after a U.S. tour. It was kept tightly secret for almost a month; Vice President Nixon was informed of the plan only the day before his July departure for the Soviet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Man of the Year | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

Ford Startime (NBC, 9:30-11 p.m.). The first of a highly touted series of specials, The Wonderful World of Entertainment weighs in with Rosalind Russell, Maurice Chevalier, Polly Bergen, Eddy Foy Jr., Jack Paar, Kate Smith and Eddie Hodges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA,TELEVISION,THEATER: Time Listings, Oct. 5, 1959 | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

Lieut. Joseph E. Guion, skipper of Kiowa, and Lieut, (j.g.) Raymond E. Foy, a Navy frogman, described the sight. Said Guion: "It looked like an extremely large shooting star, very white and blinking. It was a little sun falling down." Said Foy: "The light was a lot more intense than the moon. It was almost painful to look directly at it.'' The meteor flared through the sky, disappeared behind a cloud bank, blazed forth below. It slowed down, dimming its light and blooming two parachutes, dropped into the sea about five miles from Kiowa. This was what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPACE: Away from the World & Back | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

...months they had suspected that he was something more. "I've seen the act in vaudeville," said awed ex-Vaudevillian Charley Foy. "It's two guys on roller skates." Chimed in a breed-improver named Georgie Jessel: "His name isn't Sullivan at all. He's Silky Solomon. I knew him in Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Out of Bunyan by Runyon | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

...even Foy, thrust as an invisible character into an all-too-visible musicomedy mess, can never move with the show; he can only draw attention away from it, like someone marching exuberantly out of step. The story, with its romantic snarls and journalistic crises, clumps its stubbornly senseless, monstrously long-winded way. It is a story that Foy can briefly brighten or interrupt, but never shorten or save...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Nov. 18, 1957 | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

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