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...Crashing through fences and lurching over jumps like the clumsy 20-to-1 shot it was, Mrs. Geoffrey Kohn's big chestnut gelding Sundew managed to keep its footing while 24 of the 35 starters in Britain's Grand National Steeplechase sprawled on the turf, won easily by eight lengths from Wyndburgh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Apr. 8, 1957 | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

...Geoffrey Beaumont is a learned and dedicated man of the cloth. In the gloom of his musty church in London's Camberwell section, he conducts services for his working-class parishioners in language hallowed by generations of solemn Anglican usage. But when he sits down at his creaky upright parlor piano, he is likely to let himself go in the foot-stomping rhythms of the South Side jukeboxes. Last week he held a little party at the vicarage to display an unusual wedding of his two talents: a Mass set to popular rhythms and already known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Swinging Priests | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

...Steel Hour (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). The Bottle Imp, with Farley Granger, and Geoffrey Holder, a calypso singer and dancer, in a bizarre tale of voodoo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Mar. 11, 1957 | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

...criticism of even the trashiest book!" exclaimed another. The Review received a cascade of letters, the vast majority attacking Ciardi's review. Most were from women, and they assailed Ciardi's blunt rancor more than his assessment. There were, however, rumbles from men readers as well. Historian Geoffrey Bruun solemnly declared: "Ciardi exceeded his privileges as a poetry editor to insult a sincere and sensitive writer." Another writer protested: "Why take a baseball bat to club a butterfly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Critic Under Fire | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

...Geoffrey Holder (who plays the slave, Lucky) gave a fascinating stream-of-consciousness account of his feelings from the first rehearsal through last Friday's performance. Rex Ingram explained the religious significance of Pozzo's role and his own feeling of personal identification with the character. Earle Hyman (Didi), with his usual facile articulateness, talked about his own cultural reactions (including music and art), and later said, "I wouldn't have been able to learn my lines in this play unless every one of them meant something definite to me. . . .Nevertheless, I still consider myself a Shakespeare man" (a highly...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: The Enigma of 'Godot' | 1/17/1957 | See Source »

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