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Several remarkable platters of pressed peat have been offered the reader in recent years, the more bizarre of them including At Swim-Two-Birds, by Flann O'Brien (alias Myles na gCopaleen), and The Ginger Man (TIME, June 2), by J. P. Donleavy. Ireland's Ralph Cusack, an eccentric horticulturist and ex-painter, has written Cadenza as if to prove that O'Brien and Donleavy were squares and that James Joyce was well within his rights when he borrowed the English language and returned it in a condition unfit for use by the original owners. Cadenza...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: For the Singing Birds | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

...Dinah Shore Chevy Show (NBC. 9-10 p.m.). Guests: Hymn-Shouter Mahalia Jackson, Tony Martin and Ginger Rogers. Color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Mar. 23, 1959 | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

Pontiac Star Parade (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). A musical that can hardly miss. Accent on Love pokes fun at romance with a fine team of pros: Dancers Marge and Gower Champion, Comedians Elaine May and Mike Nichols, Singers Jaye P. Morgan and Danny Costello and All-Round Operator Ginger Rogers. Color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Time Listings, Mar. 2, 1959 | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

Thurs., Jan. 15 Pat Boone Chevy Showroom (ABC, 9-9:30 p.m.). The voice is honey, the guest Ginger (Rogers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Jan. 19, 1959 | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

...turned to spy biz, the impresario discovered that the dedicated Communists of the Soviet spy apparatus were snobs about money, names and culture. They were not impressed so much by the fact that Musician Morros had been Piatigorsky's first cello teacher as that he had once paid Ginger Rogers $75 a week, and that Bing Crosby and Bob Hope had jostled backstage for a job at Paramount. Also, incredible as it may seem, the Russians were grateful because he had turned down a flesh peddler's offer of Leon Trotsky as a Paramount stage attraction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Show Biz to Spy Biz | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

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