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Sweet Smell of Success (Hecht, Hill and Lancaster; United Artists) is a high-tension jolt into the rat-eat-rat, rat-tat-tattle world of a monstrous Broadway columnist (Burt Lancaster) and his favorite hatchetman (Tony Curtis), a pressagent who has swapped his soul for a mess of items. No...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 24, 1957 | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

One of the heroes is Wyatt Earp (Burt Lancaster), the famous marshal of Dodge City; the other is Doc Holliday (Kirk Douglas), a dentist who is terribly fast on the draw. Wyatt saves Doc from a lynch mob. and that is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Doc has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 17, 1957 | 6/17/1957 | See Source »

The beautiful friendship gets thicker and thicker. The marshal displays a tender concern for his friend's health, nags him about his drinking, clucks about his tubercular cough. In the end. Doc staggers up from his deathbed and reels out "to die with the only friend I ever had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 17, 1957 | 6/17/1957 | See Source »

Beside the fairy-tale finery of distinguished delegates crowding into London's 132-year-old Lancaster House, the pale Colonial Office functionaries in their sack coats and striped trousers looked dignified but inconspicuous. Their appearance reflected their role. They were lost among the multihued robes, top-heavy turbans and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE COMMONWEALTH: E Pluribus Nigeria | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

Campaign's Head. If the heart of the crusade is Madison Square Garden, its head is a seven-room suite in Times Square where 35 permanent staff members, 30 temporary employees and more than 200 volunteer clerical workers control a hectically complex organism. Automatic typewriters clack out letters appealing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: God in the Garden | 5/27/1957 | See Source »

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