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"Ask Mr. Molotov." From the United Nations building to the United Press, the Stork Club to Harlem, one thing that most impressed the Russians was the lavishness of U.S. newspapers and magazines. Apparently recalling the skimpy Moscow papers, Polevoy marveled that Americans in a single week can turn out "magazines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Junket a la Russe | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

Jolly Old Electorate. From the outset, it was clear that the moderates were in firm control. Fractious Nye Bevan noisily challenged Hugh Gaitskell, whom he considers his chief antagonist and rival, for the post of party treasurer. Gaitskell won by a 5-to-1 margin. The defeat seemed only to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Fire & Suet Dough | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

Up jumped spry old Herbert Morrison, his near-white cowlick standing up more jauntily than ever. Now that his chance was coming to lead, Morrison was not going to let anyone out-Socialize him. "My test of a person on the left is what he gets done," he snapped, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Fire & Suet Dough | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

Analyze Yourself first snorkeled in Britain about 20 years ago, looking like a jolly parlor game for rainy nights. "Adapted" for U.S. consumption by Editor Victor Rosen, the book still has an air of semi-solemn fun-with-Freud and what-every-Jung-man-should-know. Moreover, its prose is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Do-It-Yourself Freud | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

Doctor in the House is a movie about the lives and (jolly good) times of four medical students. Offhand I couldn't think of a more depressing subject, but once at the Exeter I laughed myself silly along with a good fifty percent of the audience. Since, However, about one...

Author: By Michael J. Halberstam and B.u. Med., S | Title: Doctor in the House | 6/1/1955 | See Source »

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