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...with particular pleasure that we welcome our new publisher, who bears a name well known to every TIME reader. The signature on this page next week will be that of the son of TIME'S cofounder and himself a working journalist and business executive for 20 of his 44 years. Born in New York City, Hank Luce took his B.A. at Yale in 1948, following three years in the Navy, in which he served aboard a destroyer escort in the Pacific. After becoming a reporter for the Cleveland Press, he joined TIME'S Washington bureau...
...rival manager accuses Drysdale of brushing his pitching hand over his hair to pick up grease that aids him in throwing spitballs. Drysdale angrily stalks into the clubhouse and emerges triumphantly holding his hair tonic, a well-known, nongreasy brand...
...critics had grounds for apprehension - but on quite another score. They were gathered for the American premiere of Krzysztof Penderecki's The Devils of Loudun by the Santa Fe Opera, a troupe known for its firm (and rare) conviction that contemporary opera deserves a place right alongside the old favorites. The Devils is a highly unorthodox piece of music. At earlier performances this summer in Hamburg and Stuttgart, it had been greeted with as many pans as praises (TIME, July 4). Santa Fe once more was sho ing its devil-may-care spirit in risking, along with the tried...
Although it has been completed for five months, Cool has been held from release by a variety of intra-and extramural crises. Trade rumor has it that Mayor Daley's office is displeased with the film. It is known that one member of the board of Gulf and Western, the conglomerate that owns Paramount, threatened to resign if the film were ever released. Jack Valenti and his Motion Picture Association shock troops registered considerable displeasure over some of the obscenities in the dialogue. "I wrote them and said I'd be glad to fix it up," Wexler reports...
Mechanics of Illusion. Throughout Medium Cool, Wexler makes his presence known behind the camera. In what must stand as one of the most gripping sequences in modern film making, the Illinois National Guard fire tear gas at a group of terrified youngsters while one of Wexler's assistants is heard to scream off-camera: "Watch out, Haskell, it's real!" Still, Wexler's dramatic attempts to reconcile personal and public crises lead him occasionally to overload his film. The romance never quite has the passion and urgency that it should, and the novice director's infatuation...