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David Jordan (Richard Kiley) is an expatriate ''Europe bum,'' a permanent house and party guest on the Paris-Monte Carlo-St. Tropez axis. He once wrote a Pulitzer Prizewinning novel and now has trouble whisking the dust off his typewriter. Barbara Woodruff (Diahann Carroll), tall and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: No Heart | 3/23/1962 | See Source »

Which is perhaps a good thing, since the book is terrible. Jokes about the Kennedy family, sneers at Time, and a couple of anti-FDR cracks that haven't been heard around Harvard for some years--these are not inherently funny things. Nor are puns, hairy-legged kicklines, topical names...

Author: By Joseph L. Featherstone, | Title: Peace Decorum | 3/22/1962 | See Source »

What brought about this success most of all was Paul Schoeffler's brilliant handling of Sachs. The continual philosophical note of his lines never strayed into pomposity; a spread-legged geniality did not dissolve into pointlessly effusive gestures or sprawling pitch. The drama discards Wagner's customary alliterations; tense articulation...

Author: By William A. Weber, | Title: Die Meistersinger | 3/16/1962 | See Source »

Such leavening complements the Cantab's only formal assignment: reading on his own for three years in one field as preparation for his tripos-the grueling exams after his second and third years that are named after the three-legged stools on which exam takers once sat. Even this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Ancient & Adaptable | 3/2/1962 | See Source »

Ends: Gary Collins, 21, Maryland; 6 ft. 3 in., 205 Ibs. Bill Miller, 21, Miami; 6 ft., 195 Ibs. Says one scouting report of Collins: "Fast, does everything well, has all the moves. Also a good punter." Of Miller: "Great hands, and the unusual ability to catch a pass in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: 1961 All-America | 12/1/1961 | See Source »

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