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THE LONG SKELETON, by Frances & Richard Lockridge (190 pp.; Lippincott; $2.95), takes off from the logical assumption that when a Torquemada-type TV interviewer is poisoned, the list of suspects is likely to run into considerable space. The puzzle yields to Pamela North, a young lady who has already solved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Mysteries | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

The Star. Julia Jean Mildred Frances Turner was a pressagent's dream ready-made for stardom by Hollywood standards. Her father was killed in a gambling scrape when she was ten; her mother struggled to keep her alive. In Hollywood one day, when she was a well-stacked 16...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: The Bad & the Beautiful | 4/21/1958 | See Source »

NBC Opera Company: For its final presentation of a handsome season, NBC's young and sprightly opera company presented a sparkling, two-hour show of Mozart's artful Cosi Fan Tutte (Women Are Like That). The cynical, silly, and charming tale-two gentlemen of Naples undertake to disprove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 4/21/1958 | See Source »

For all his brain-picking, Gunther was so likable and professionally esteemed that he was elected first president of Vienna's Anglo-American Press Association in 1931. With his small, assertive first wife Frances, Gunther was as famed even then for doughty partying as for hard work. In his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Insider | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

John and Frances Gunther's first brush with death came in 1929, when their only daughter Judy died at four months of a glandular ailment. In April 1946 they learned that their only son, then 16, had a brain tumor. For 15 months Johnny, a lively, charming youngster, clung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Insider | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

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