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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...august inaugural was presided over by no less a statesman than Professional Toastmaster George Jessel, 63. Last week, entertainment's sinking showboat offhandedly admitted that the official document he had been handed at the ceremony was a paternity-suit summons slapped on him by sometime Fiancée Joan Tyler, 27. At week's end Joan assured the world, in the blase manner of Hollywood, that "George and I are not mad at each other," hinted that he might marry her when her divorce becomes final in January. Jessel's reaction to the matter: "At my time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 14, 1961 | 7/14/1961 | See Source »

...Portrait of Alexander Hamilton, while another types letters near some floating rectangles by Mark Rothko. A client, his mind a mass of figures, hustles past a superb African sculpture and suddenly finds himself confronting an 18th century ship's figurehead standing next to an abstraction by Joan Mitchell. Here and there a Charles Burchfield or an Andrew Wyeth appears; there is a convulsed semi-abstraction by Larry Rivers, a grisly head by Leon Golub, a surrealist landscape by Kay Sage, a calligraphic work by Mathieu and splashy one by Adolph Gottlieb. An executive vice president who insisted that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Wall Street Treasure | 6/30/1961 | See Source »

...husband. All three are plagued by vague fears of death and desertion, and they ease them in various ways-the mother by marrying every man she meets instead of "just sleeping with them," the younger daughter by sleeping with everybody she cannot bear to marry, and the older daughter, Joan, by riding New Orleans streetcars and listening far into the night to Wagner's Liebestod. Boredom and jealousy of her sister lead Joan into an affair, and soon she finds herself pregnant. She has an abortion, and what follows is a subtly detailed, enormously effective chronicle of mental collapse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Soft Focus | 6/23/1961 | See Source »

...Morning and the Evening, by Joan Williams, and The Moviegoer, by Walker Percy. The small-town South (Mississippi) and the big-city South (New Orleans) chronicled with arresting talent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Jun. 16, 1961 | 6/16/1961 | See Source »

...Morning and the Evening, by Joan Williams, and The Moviegoer, by Walker Percy. The small-town South (Mississippi) and the big-city South (New Orleans) chronicled with arresting talent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Television, Theater, Books: Jun. 9, 1961 | 6/9/1961 | See Source »

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