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Paean to a Softy. Mounds of congratulatory telegrams from celebrities filled his suite. Jack Dempsey, the McGuire Sisters and the cast of Say, Darling wished him well. Hedda Hopper was sorry she couldn't make it. Frank Sinatra, Winchell's current shrine character, reserved three tables for opening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Can WW Save Vaudeville? | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

Jack Lemmon is the hero-a buck private and bigtime operator in a unit waiting to be shipped home from Europe after World War II. TV's Ernie Kovacs is the villain-the unit's second-in-command, who is bound and determined, as soon as he is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 25, 1957 | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

The plot turns on the old snooper-duper situation. Lemmon & Co. are determined to have a mad ball in a neighboring village, and invite all the nurses -even though it's breaking the book for enlisted men and officers to "socialize."' But that dog Kovacs. a fellow with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 25, 1957 | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

In the end, with a wonderfully silly assist from Mickey Rooney, the boys have their ball, and the rat gets caught in his own trap. Disguised as a private, Captain Kovacs races cross-country in an Army truck to break up the party, blissfully unaware that the truck is loaded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 25, 1957 | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

CBS's Playhouse 90, TV's only 1½-hour show, was last year's best dramatic program. So far this year it is only the longest. Last week the show tried an adaptation of Topaze, Marcel Pagnol's tart comedy about a naively idealistic French...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

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