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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rehearsing two plays for New England's television stations. Miracle on the Danube will be shown in Boston live and in color...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HDC Names Plays For Fall Production | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

Ernst, nothing that reserve books, atleast, are relatively safe from the practice because of steep fines, called this problem "something we have to live with...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Library Officials Hit Illegal Use of Lamont | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

...equally blithe about rumors of assassination plots, some spread by his own aides. Police picked up one crackpot who had planned to toss a pipe bomb ("just for kicks") into a Castro rally in Central Park. "I sleep well and don't worry," said Castro. "I will not live one day more than the day I am going to die." He told the rally of 20,000 Spanish-speaking New Yorkers that "I came for a suffering, backward and hungry Latin America." His aim: "Humanism-liberty with bread." The crowd took up the chant, "Fidel Castro! Fidel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Humanist Abroad | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

...cutting of Jeanne Crain's lines ("She's no Duse"), and hesitated not a moment to order the taping of an entire scene from The Browning Version when one actor showed a tendency to blow his lines. (This last maneuver, by a man who has always championed live TV and frowned on tape and other mechanical aids, was as revealing as W. C. Fields's inspired advice to a harassed comic contemporary: "Never mind what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Producer's Progress | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

Most Wodehouse characters live in England, but they have a curiously American shine to their ways. His heroines would seem the image of Harry Leon Wilson flappers of pre-World War I America-the America first known to Wodehouse-were it not for the fact that they are simultaneously as British as Poet John Betjeman's strong-armed Dianas; they display the "outer crust ... of Miss Marilyn Monroe," and yet still manage to draw from their swains such modish endearments of the British '20s as a "tenderly" spoken "old blighter." Wodehouse heroes are often golfers, but they play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old Blighter | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

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