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Thinner than usual but dressed to the usual hilt (a ring on every finger, gold pins in the lapels of his blue-grey suit, a jeweled pin in his red-speckled tie), octogenarian Negro Cultist Father Divine made one of his rare appearances to supervise a vittles-laden Feast of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 2, 1958 | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

Last week's Topic A was zoning. Adroitly, Commissioner Howse drew from a witness an admission that Commissioner Stevens had been privately consulted on a city zoning matter in which he had a possible interest. "It's just another attempt to smear me," retorted Stevens, whose nerves were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KANSAS: Punchy Commission | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

Among other peril-frought trends in the U.S., Italy's sleek, slick Couturiere Simonetta observed a "dangerous" tendency among U.S. women to ignore fashion trends and wear what they look best in. Here on her first U.S. visit since 1955, Simonetta crossly jangled her charm bracelet at a New...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 28, 1957 | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

Four Winds is rather like something by Noel Coward as adapted by a German moralist and retranslated into English. In a certain sense, through its own gift of tediousness and soggy small talk, it mirrors an expensively empty world. But its truths are the dreariest truisms, its gamut a mere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Oct. 7, 1957 | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

Two Manhattan producers announced that they will soon try the onerous feat of bringing a lusty chunk of the stream of consciousness of Author James Joyce to Broadway. Their dramatic selection: the "Nighttown" portion of Joyce's phantasmagoric Ulysses, covering three hours in a Dublin bordello, most of it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 21, 1957 | 1/21/1957 | See Source »

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