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Dates: during 1950-1959
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New Hampshire's Novelist Grace (Return to Peyton Place) Metalious blew into Manhattan, called a press conference, was soon berating Hollywood Producer Jerry Wald for more or less tricking her into writing her latest exposé of small-town wickedness. In agreement with most critics, Grace growled: "This isn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 21, 1959 | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

In the wake of his recent statement that Soviet composers like to rehash old Czarist motifs instead of going in new directions, Conductor Leonard Bernstein, lionized in the Soviet Union only three months ago, was drawn and quarter-noted in the newspaper Soviet Culture. It was also hinted that when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 21, 1959 | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

No sooner was ex-Chicago Bootlegger Roger ("The Terrible") Touhy paroled from the Illinois state pen last month (TIME, Nov. 23-30) than a book titled The Stolen Years, Touhy's rip-roaring life story, was published by Cleveland's Pennington Press. The hot volume, co-authored by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 21, 1959 | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Soon after left-wing British Author J. B. Priestley and his archaeologist wife Jacquetta arrived in Australia last month for a ban-the-bomb peace conference, they decided that they did not like being Down Under at all. About to leave Australia last week, J.B. was still smarting about the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 21, 1959 | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

On the eve of her 80th birthday, Manhattan's spry Patroness of Arts Eleanor Robson Belmont was hailed by the Metropolitan Opera, got her hand kissed by Opera Manager Rudolf Bing, a gallantry that drew a hearty laugh from Opera President Anthony Bliss. It was close to the 25th...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 21, 1959 | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

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