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Common Complaint. But if the three kings seemed to have cut loose from Nasser on East-West issues, they appeared bent on making it up to their brother Arab by re-emphasizing their solidarity against Israel. After the U.S. flag tanker Kern Hills, on Israeli charter, sailed through the Gulf of Aqaba to unload Iranian oil at the Israeli port of Elath, the Saudis informed U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold that they considered the gulf a closed Arab sea, and that if Israeli ships tried to pass they would "oppose" them. In rapid succession Iran, Iraq, Syria, and even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Shifting Alignments | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

...captain or the opera-buff shoemaker of The $64,000 Question, but an agile Jack-of-all-subjects. He is an engaging, curly-haired, lanky (6 ft. 2½ in., 160 lbs.) image of the all-American boy-"so likable," gushed the Chicago American's TV Critic Janet Kern, "that he has come to be a 'friend' whose weekly visits the whole family eagerly anticipates." Along with this charm, he combines the universal erudition of a Renaissance man with the nerve and cunning of a riverboat gambler and the showmanship of the born actor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV & Radio: The Wizard of Quiz | 2/11/1957 | See Source »

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 »

...Nazi careerists, or weary Wehrmacht regulars who have long since sent their consciences on permanent leave. Steiner tangles with one of them, his Führer-minded C.O., and exposes him for the cowardly lump of jelly he is. In the meantime even the old soldiers die. Dorn and Kern are blasted to shapeless pulp by artillery shells. Schnurrbart is mistakenly murdered by a homosexual German officer settling a private score. It is a quiet day on the eastern front when a stray Russian shell catches Steiner. "Why are you bawling?" he asks the only old platoon member left...

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 »

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