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In terms of the old nursery jingle no more crooked man walked a longer mile than Thomas Gage, an English Dominican friar turned Protestant clergyman, and no man more thoroughly squandered the possibility of a heroic memory as missionary, adventurer and writer. Thomas Gage is forgotten today so that his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Long Mile | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

In Chicago she didn't bother to enroll, and talked-mostly, it turned out, to Mike Nichols, another cellar-dwelling semi-student. The son of a Russian-Jewish doctor, Mike was born in Berlin, came to the U.S. as a refugee from the Nazis. In Manhattan Mike shunted in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Fresh Eggheads | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

To the accompaniment of a constant stream of anti-Western vituperation from Cairo, as well as the jingle of Egyptian money, El Azhari put on a vigorous, glad-handing campaign. He played upon the anti-religious sentiment of the younger generation by hammering away disdainfully at Premier Khalil's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SUDAN: To Be Continued | 3/24/1958 | See Source »

Proving, as usual, that quality does not necessarily jingle cash registers, Motion Picture Herald posted the results of its poll of some 10,000 U.S. and Canadian theater owners. Their selection of the top ten box-office pullers featured male dreamboats of all ages, indicated that teen-agers are calling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Best & Biggest | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

"Why say it like a rocking horse? Why make it jingle so? And wise-who wants to be wise?

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 11, 1957 | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

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