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Murray lifers like to keep on, say the Murrays, for the fun and companionship, and because there are always new dances to master. The Murrays are ever on the lookout, will go a long way to study a new dance. Their current specialty, researched in the Caribbean: the stiff-legged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: On (and On) with the Dance | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

The middle-aged hero (Robert Shafer) is that most pitiable of men, a Washington Senators fan. An offhand mention that he would sell his soul for a long-ball hitter brings on Ray Walston, a crewcut, button-down Screwtape always willing to oblige. With a flick of the wrist, Walston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 29, 1958 | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

The fancy prizes that looked so fine before the camera have too often grown tarnished between victory and delivery; e.g., the all-expenses-paid vacation in Europe provided no hotel room, only a flight to Paris and home the next day. There was evidence that contestants on certain shows had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Quiz Scandal (Contd.) | 9/8/1958 | See Source »

In his cartoonland, basketball centers are lean and heron-legged, fullbacks loom half a mile high, thoroughbreds trade wisecracks with their jockeys on the drive to the wire. More startling, his situations may be parodies of a Keats poem or a Steinbeck novel. A literate wit, plus a newsman'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sporting Cartoons | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

In St. Joseph's Mercy Hospital at Pontiac, Mich., a receptionist glanced up one night last week to see "a zombie" stagger hunched and stiff-legged through the main door. The man wore shoes, socks, and a checked cotton bathrobe; his body was charred, his eyes swollen, his mouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Torch Without Song | 8/18/1958 | See Source »

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