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Pamela begins the day by phoning one of her pals to exchange, as she says, "the frightful news on everyone else-who changed analysts, which wife went home crying from what party with whom." She deluges husband James with her daily "report from the jungle," but he simply "sits there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Talker | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

The Englishman here (Kenneth More) is a gentleman's gunsmith who heads west with a reasonable expectation of doing business-where there's gun smoke, they must use firearms. Beyond that, the only thing the man knows about the U.S. frontier is that Jesse James is "a frightful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 2, 1959 | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

There she lived with beggars, cutthroats, cutpurses, dwarfs and cripples, including the leering, one-eyed gangleader Calembredaine, who had a "nightmare face, blurred by long strands of greasy hair [and] marked by a violet wen.'' It was Calembredaine who in a frightful brawl won Angélique as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Forever Angelique | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

This is conceivably the only novel ever written in which a boy tries to seduce a girl in a recumbent church bell. The would-be lovers fail, but that is because the clapper gives off a frightful clang that scares them both frigid. All of this will come as no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: It Tolls, but for Whom? | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

Within 42 hours, police, swarming into the integrated area around the Penn campus, collared all eleven of the junior-grade thugs, aged 15 to 19. In municipal court a pursed-lipped judge quickly ruled they must be tried for murder as adults. Philadelphia, its brotherly love strained like many another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CITIES: Hands Dripping Blood | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

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