Word: li
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dogpatch, U.S.A. has jumped from the comic strips to the stage. Luckily Dogpatch loses little of its good-natured fun in the transition, even if the world of Li'l Abner becomes a bit more finite and less imaginative...
Candide & Li'l Abner. Producers, writers and musicians have been working on a whopping list of 34 musicals-at least ten of which will probably see an opening night on Broadway. The list ranges from the operatic Ballad of Baby Doe (TIME, July 16) to a musical adaptation of Voltaire's Candide by Lillian (The Little Foxes) Hellman, Conductor-Composer Leonard Bernstein and Poet Richard Wil bur. There are also such suggestions of enchanting evenings as Ethel Merman in Happy Hunting, with a book by Life With Father's Howard Lindsay-Russel Grouse; Li'l Abner...
...days that followed, Li Po was as inquisitive as any youngster, but with a difference. Why was there no portrait of Mao Tse-tung on the wall? How were Aunty and Uncle Huang serving the people? Why were the poisonous movies of the Americans shown in Hong Kong...
Anxious to answer these questions in their own way, the Huangs asked Hsiao Ming to leave Li Po in Hong Kong for schooling. "They would not mind if I stayed in Hong Kong," answered Hsiao Ming, "but if the boy did not return to the nursery, it would cause my husband great trouble." Then she added: "You find the ways of my son strange, and even suggest-though I know you meant no offense-that he has not been receiving the right kind of teaching. I cannot tell any longer what is right or wrong. I only know that...
...days later stocky Auguste Lecoeur, once considered a logical successor to Thorez, but drummed out of the party in 1954 for criticizing party strategy, was scheduled to speak in the northern French town of Hénin-Liétard, where he had once been a Communist Deputy. Lecoeur is busy these days trying to promote an independent leftist movement. The Communist Party issued orders: "All workers will prevent Lecoeur from performing his nefarious piece of work." When the doors of the hall opened, a crowd of 1,000 Communist bullyboys, who had descended on Hénin-Li...