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Laughton's most difficult problem, triumphantly solved, was the staging of Don Juan. The tours were a hopscotch of one-and two-night stands, often hundreds of miles apart. The stages were anything from a banquet hall to a fraternal temple. There was no use carrying elaborate settings or props; there might not be adequate lights or even a curtain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Happy Ham | 3/31/1952 | See Source »

...little-girl victims whom he picked up on their way to school. What really matters, says Jackson, is the effect of the crime, as the tabloids play all its angles across the board, on the minds of you-and-you-and-you. Using an unimaginative hopscotch technique, he jumps from one character to another and back again, winds up with a notebook full of unconvincing case histories. Samples: ¶Handsome Jim Harron, a well-paid New York publicity man, is unnerved, then regenerated, by the crime and a visit to the victim's father. The effect on Harron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lost Effort | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

Like many a U.S. school, Moscow's P.S. 29 is big and boxlike. Pigtailed scholars play hopscotch outside its walls, and butterfly collections hang unnoticed beside crude crayon drawings in its corridors. Each room has large portraits of Lenin and Stalin. "What's the difference between them?" a TIME reporter asked a first-grade class. An eager little girl answered: "Lenin is dead. Stalin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: The Difference | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

...after he quit as T.W.A.'s president. But this week Frye was elected board chairman of General Aniline & Film Corp., now controlled by the Office of Alien Property Custodian. And G.A.F. is involved in a squabble that makes T.W.A.'s look like a simple game of hopscotch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Thorny Plum | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

...Newfoundland mountain range, rhymes with can he hopscotch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: EXTERNAL AFFAIRS: Join the U.S.? | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

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