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Author George Axelrod has given Ewell an admittedly tough part, full of long soliloquies which must be kept fresh lest the play become tedious. Ewell plays a junior executive whose seven year marriage is interrupted briefly when his wife and small son vacation to Cohasset...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Seven Year Itch | 11/6/1952 | See Source »

...before World War II, Lulu took a transport-pilot's license, went to work in the front office of Lufthansa, and joined the Luftwaffe reserve as a pilot. He found his progress blocked at every turn by the Nazis, who feared, he says, to let him become prominent lest he revive royalist feeling in the Reich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Modern Hohenzollern | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

...University of Wisconsin in Madison, he took a swipe at Joe McCarthy: "The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain. It must be unrestricted . . . Some, perhaps, find it politically profitable to cultivate the vineyards of anxiety. I would warn them lest they reap the grapes of wrath." At Milwaukee, where Stevenson drew a crowd that was somewhat bigger than Eisenhower's crowd of the week before, Stevenson criticized Ike for his routine endorsement of Joe McCarthy and of Indiana's Senator William Jenner. Said Stevenson: "Disturbing things have taken place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Adlai's Five Days | 10/20/1952 | See Source »

...peace." He accused Churchill and the U.S. of tying Britain's "economy to a perpetual war machine. This is rake's progress." However, the pink-cheeked Welshman twinkled cheerfully as he castigated his private enemies and Britain's friends alike, "I know I must be careful, lest I make a controversial speech." The audience roared with delight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Wide Open | 10/13/1952 | See Source »

...Lead us, lest too far we wander...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Melody Lingers On | 10/13/1952 | See Source »

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