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...Last Word (Sun. 3:30 p.m., CBS). Novelist Laura Z. Hobson and Historian Arthur Schlesinger join the panel on the English language...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Apr. 15, 1957 | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

...Washington's social circuit, Mac-Arthur and his witty wife, Laura, daughter of the late Alben Barkley, are much in demand. Laura MacArthur leans naturally toward the Democratic Party; her husband diplomatically describes himself as an independent. MacArthur keeps a motorboat on the Potomac, hopes that when he, Laura, and daughter, Mimi, 19, are settled in Tokyo he will be able to follow a favorite pastime: skindiving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Another MacArthur | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

...railroad, truck and mule train; the last mail brought your Sept. 24 issue with John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s story. The following day one of our students died of typhoid fever. In her class, I heard the teacher comforting her pupils with the words you quoted from Laura Spelman Rockefeller, "Children are my precious jewels -loaned me for a season to be handed back when the call comes." Even here in this small town the good works of the Rockefeller bounty is felt. Unaware, perhaps, farmers in this area are beginning to use hybrid corn seed made possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 19, 1956 | 11/19/1956 | See Source »

...with export licenses for reactors to West Germany, The Netherlands and Brazil. 20TH CENTURY-FOX, second biggest U.S. moviemaker, is moving solidly into television's camp. For $30 million, Fox has given National Telefilm Associates rights to distribute 390 of Fox's best-known pre-1948 films (Laura, The Razor's Edge, Gentleman's Agreement, etc.) over network of 112 U.S. TV stations. In addition, Fox gets 50% interest in Telefilm's film network. Deal assures Fox nationwide distribution for its properties, e.g., Mr. Belvedere, which could be converted into TV films...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Nov. 12, 1956 | 11/12/1956 | See Source »

...part the truth it had in the original. Though the adaptation adds to his role a suicide attempt and a pajama fight, he is somewhat wooden; and his awkwardnesses are not those of a boy since he seems, and is, much older than 18. Only Deborah Kerr, as Laura Reynolds, gives her role real depth, and suggests, as the others don't, the loneliness they all share...

Author: By Jonathan Beecher, | Title: Tea and Sympathy | 10/13/1956 | See Source »

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