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...never discuss matters affecting members of my family with total strangers," he erupted. "You sent some hired hack-of yours to see me this morning to discuss with me the topics you wished to discuss-you pretend it's all unrehearsed. This was not one of those he raised. I do not intend to discuss it with you. You are a total stranger to me and I suppose the few hundred people looking in at this small television station, which has not yet managed to get itself network, that they are most of them strangers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Next Question, Please | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

...Paid hack" was the phrase that Britain's weekly The People once used to describe Randolph Churchill, who sued for libel and collected ?5,000 ($14,000) in damages (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Next Question, Please | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

Every day for four weeks the cops had poked around the homes, stores and vacant lots of Springfield, Mo. (pop. 80,500) looking for the weapon used 10 hack to death a shopkeeper and a liquor-store clerk. Last week an off-duty policeman named James Kitchell pushed a hand under an icehouse half a block from the scene of the murders, and pulled out a bloody butcher knife. Kitchell rushed to his boss. Police Chief Warren Norman, with the killer's weapon and an idea of his own: instead of calling the usual press conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Electronic Lure | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

...space where the circus shows off its freaks, directly below the main arena where hockey players hack at one another with stick and skate, Madison Square Garden last week became a colossal art gallery. The most massive exhibition of U.S. painting and sculpture in decades-more than 1,500 works from 40 states and Hawaii-lined 4,200 running feet of plywood panels and sprawled over 40,000 sq. ft. of space in the Garden's basement Exposition Hall. The all-encompassing title of the show: "Art: U.S.A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art in the Garden | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

...giving it a refreshing tartness that most war movies lack. Boulle has packed into his screenplay all the elements a good war movie ought to have: torture, escape, death, destruction, heroism, sacrifice, and so forth. But everything is seen freshly, with the eye of an artist instead of a hack...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: The Bridge on the River Kwai | 1/9/1958 | See Source »

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