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...whole idea. But at one of the formal meetings that Kennedy held on the subject after he became President, he was persuaded by the plan's advocates that "the simplest thing, after all, might be to let the Cubans [meaning the exiles] go where they yearned to go-to Cuba." He also was not unmindful of what benefits a successful invasion could bring, and in early April all the hot inside talk in Washington was that "the Kennedys would knock off Castro soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: BAY OF PIGS REVISITED: Lessons from a Failure | 7/30/1965 | See Source »

Honest Exuberance. Wonderful Town is a simple musical fable about two venturesome Ohio sisters who invade Manhattan. One (Edith Adams) has a come-hither eye; the other (Rosalind Russell) has a go-to manner. Based on the humorous New Yorker short stories by Ruth McKenney, the show has had a long dramatic history: it was a 1940 Broadway hit as My Sister Eileen, starring this year's Oscar-winning Shirley Booth (see CINEMA). Rosalind made the movie version in 1942 and has played the role of Ruth in a dozen radio broadcasts. Though always successful, the show was never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Comic Spirit | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

House champions in four sports will meet their Yale counterparts tomorrow. The Lowell baseball team and the Eliot golf team will go-to New Haven, and the Eliot crew and the Leverett tennis squad will stay here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bunny Nine Tops Elephants; House Ball Season Ends | 5/20/1949 | See Source »

...individual Baptists taking part in the war. Said the Convention's war resolution (drawn up by Dr. Daniel A. Poling): "The church must be the church-not a recruiting agency for any government. [But] she must companion her sons and daughters wherever as conscientious Christians they may go-to the battlefront, to the ambulance corps and to the camp for objectors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Conventions | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

...doubtful whether Leonardo ever embraced a woman in love. . ." Leonardo's first patron was Lorenzo de' Medici, lavish ruler of Florence. But Leonardo served himself miserably: he was ridden by a perfectionism which prevented him from finishing a work. Even the patient Lorenzo finally let his artist go-to Milan, where he served the great Duke Ludovico Sforza. There Leonardo ranged through "interior decoration, gadget design, city planning, court painting and sculpture. His painter's mind was increasingly and almost ruinously engaged by intellectual curiosity about the physical world. Leonardo ended by turning from art to science...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Tribute to Gicmthood | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

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