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Ro (for Roland) Lancaster is an elderly, gangling man with a "raddled old face." Elsa is an untidy drifter of 28, thirty years his junior and fond of reminding him of it. Ro wants to while away the day talking about the years when he was a famous U.S. newspaperman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fallen Eagle | 3/31/1958 | See Source »

Good Samaritan. Behind them they left Lincoln gripped in fear. Mothers pulled toddlers indoors, took older children out of school. Neighbors checked in and checked out with each other, paralyzed Lincoln's telephone circuits with the heaviest traffic since V-J day. District court was recessed. Business firms booked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Even with the World | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

Extended Test. In Lancaster, N.Y., George G. Morgan, 31, held on a vagrancy charge after driving 8,000 miles in a car taken from a Victoria, Texas auto dealer, protested: "The salesman told me to take her out for a trial spin, but he didn't say how far...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 13, 1958 | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

In Hollywood, it was a confirmed fact that Cinemactress Rita (Fire Down Below) Hayworth, 39, is going to marry her boss, Writer-Producer James Hill, 41. of the Midas-touch Hecht-Hill-Lancaster independent moviemaking outfit. Eying his prospects of being Rita's fifth bridegroom, Bachelor Hill, now busy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 25, 1957 | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

Through the use of symbol-studded poetry, music, and dancing, Yeats tried to build a ritual pattern, every part of which must be fully apprehended before the play can be understood. Even then, the story of a poet who chooses a mysterious queen as the ideal figure of his verses...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: Three Plays by Yeats | 11/16/1957 | See Source »

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