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Fact is that even on Broadway, Stevens finds little time for social elbow-bending. "If I only knew more of these actors," says he wistfully. "If I had time to get to all their cocktail parties, I'd be a helluva lot better off. I find theater people a lot more fun than real estate people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Stage-Struck Shrewdie | 10/20/1958 | See Source »

Frede's diagnosis may be accurate for a segment of the present college generation, but it is certainly to glib. Bogard suggests that "we've been taught a helluva lot of Don'ts and almost no Do's." causes of apathy are much deeper and more complex than Frede's closing explanation suggests. In sum, the author fails to convince the reader that he is capable of more than a tabloid presentation of character or idea...

Author: By Charles S. Maier, | Title: The 'Apathetic Generation' | 10/9/1958 | See Source »

Saving a Face. What preceded the peace was, said Bugas, "just a helluva poker game. It's a screwy process, but you have to go through with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Peace at a Sound Price | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

...world's biggest gas well blew in, and it was enough to wow even the most blase of engineers-"This is one helluva big well . . . the biggest." That it was. Drilled by Shell Oil Co. of Canada, Ltd. and the British American Oil Co, Ltd., in the muskeg 150 miles northwest of Edmonton, Alta., it roared in with a fabulous open-flow potential of 1.5 billion cu. ft. per day. Its closest competitor is a 500 million-cu.-ft. well owned by Phillips Petroleum Co. in Pecos County, Texas, and the nearest thing Canada has seen is a dwarf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: The Biggest Gas Well | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

...southpaws at the Class AA Atlanta farm, Bob Hartman, 20 (18-9, ERA 2.55), and Ken MacKenzie, 24 (12-7, ERA 3.36). But Manager Haney thinks that he has all the varsity pitching he needs right now. Says he of his four young pitchers: "Each one pitches a helluva game every time out. They're real good pitchers now, and they're going to be great ones. I hate to think of where we'd be without them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Youth Saves the Day | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

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