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...ghost shimmered as he shuddered. "A bunch of limp and gutless people trembling for fear they might like something they shouldn't. They have to be told by Experts what is good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Portrait of the Artist | 12/16/1958 | See Source »

Coming out of Fine Arts 13, Vag met Rembrandt's ghost. "It would be better if you were never exposed to art at all," said Rembrandt. "This confounded vacuum approach. It puts my work in a box to be described by would-be aesthetes in technical terms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Portrait of the Artist | 12/16/1958 | See Source »

...remember Sergeant Preston and his dog King, "On King! On you huskies!", brought to us by Quaker Oats, the cereal shot from guns. We remember the sidekicks: Vic, Tank Tinker, Jim and Penny and Clipper. We remember the villains; the Gray Ghost, Dr. Martelli, the secret agents with German accents, who called one another Klaus and Fritz and Karl. There were, of course, comic books, and we are not unfamiliar with Superman, Batman and Robin, or the Plastic Man. But mostly we listened, and imagined...

Author: By David M. Farquhar, | Title: From a Kazoo Kulture To Wheaties Democracy | 12/4/1958 | See Source »

...whole life since the beginning of the century," she once said. Memphis railroaders were known to fight with strangers who sang the slanderous lines. For a while, the ballad was banned in Jackson, Tenn., where Janie Jones lived out the long, lean years. With the help of a ghost writer, she tried to clear herself in a new version of the song: "My Casey, Husband Casey, who meant the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: The Legacy of a Legend | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

...tale of her rise from a London slum background that Sheilah Graham tells in Beloved Infidel, or rather, does not tell. For reasons best known to the inscrutable West Coast, Gossipist Graham has chosen to spill the news of her life to Fellow Journalist (Coronet) Gerold Frank, whose ghost-written accounts of lost and love-shorn ladies (Lillian Roth's I'll Cry Tomorrow, Diana Barrymore's Too Much, Too Soon) have made him a leading sob brother. He achieves a confidential tone that rarely confides, a vulgarity that is everywhere in the air but never down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Honi Soit Qui Malibu | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

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