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...Larry's choosing and, mostly, at Larry's request. With an expanded corps of operatives-five men for floor work, twelve women researchers and secretaries-O'Brien has shown unprecedented agility in spanning the hazardous chasm between the Hill and the White House-maintaining what Bryce Harlow, President Eisenhower's legislative man, called "an ambulatory bridge across a constitutional gulf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Administration: Back-Room Boy Up Front | 9/10/1965 | See Source »

...anyway. Besides, as the old adage has it, a man who reads to improve himself is probably beyond hope of improvement. The catch-up reader should then resolve to shun all the authors he feels obliged to read. If his conscience impels him toward Marlowe, he should settle for Harlow; if his secret ambition is to get through all of Dumas, he should try a Du Maurier. For the habitual nonreader to leap into Finnegans Wake or Wittgenstein is almost as unseemly and possibly as dangerous as it is for a middle-aged stockbroker to demonstrate push...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: SUMMER READING: Risks, Rules & Rewards | 8/13/1965 | See Source »

...Next time you come to Washington, call me," murmured the impeccable Madame Alphand. "I'd love to show you the embassy." "That's it," cried Carroll ecstatically, as she spied a Harlow-type Lanvin white gown dripping with ostrich feathers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Feather Merchants | 8/6/1965 | See Source »

Ostensibly based on Irving Shulman's "intimate biography," this gaudy, highly publicized valentine from Producer Joseph E. Levine stars Carroll Baker, suitably bleached and lacquered, as the Blonde Bombshell. Actually, Actress Baker seems more the bomb blonde-shell, as she shallowly traces the famous footsteps that led Harlow from Kansas City to Hollywood scandal, tragedy, and death from uremic poisoning in 1937 at age 26. Under Gordon Douglas' direction, the film takes frequent side trips into those gossamer realms of fiction where high seriousness begins to sound suspiciously like high camp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bunking a Legend | 7/23/1965 | See Source »

...After his suicide, poor Jean plunges into moral decay, and eventually wanders off alone to the beach in a slinky black formal, as good a way as any to catch a fatal cold. Since its script has already succumbed to silliness back in the first reel, the latest filmflam Harlow will be mourned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bunking a Legend | 7/23/1965 | See Source »

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