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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Steiner's platoon is a batch of human putty. Among them are: trusty, pipe-smoking Schnurrbart, a born second-in-command; Dietz, a mamma's boy with the puppy-dog look; Dorn, an overage misclassified philosophy professor; Kern, a blowhard rookie; and Zoll, a pornography-minded tub of lard. "Anyone who gives out is going to be left behind," Steiner warns them. When their rations give out, Steiner tells them to eat tree bark, but he also shares the last of his own rations. When Dietz is critically wounded in a night skirmish, it is Steiner who holds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Corporal's Inferno | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

...time, "if I can make its songs." There was a silence. "Who makes Amer ica's songs these days?" asked Stephen Foster. George Gershwin removed his cigar. "No one you know," he said. "Or probably ever will." "It depends what you mean by the word song," observed Jerome Kern mildly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: They Write the Songs | 3/26/1956 | See Source »

Biographies in Sound (Tues. 9 :05 p.m., NBC). Jerome Kern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Nov. 28, 1955 | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

George Montgomery '45, Jack Henderson, Arthur Kern and William Gilmore are among the artists included in the supplement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Advocate Schedules Supplement on Arts | 9/26/1955 | See Source »

...lined up more Spectaculars (some 75) than ever, and most of them will be in color. On the list: The Skin of Our Teeth, with Mary Martin, Helen Hayes, George Abbott; a musical version of Thornton Wilder's Our Town, with Frank Sinatra and Eva Marie Saint; Jerome Kern's The Cat and the Fiddle; Dearest Enemy, with a Rodgers and Hart score; a musical based on Heidi with Wally Cox and Jeannie Carson; Patrice Munsel in The Great Waltz; and Maurice Chevalier in a variety show. Straight drama also will get the 90-minute treatment from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: $75 Million Package | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

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