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...Steinbeck's Cannery Row. When not cavorting, the bims and bums heave and push at a constantly stalled romance between a popular young scientist and a pretty waif befriended by a madam. To get Doc a microscope, Cannery Row stages a raffle and fancy-dress brawl, and when the lovelorn heroine takes up despairing residence inside a boiler, they have at the lovelorn hero to fetch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Rodger and Hammerstein's Pipe Dream | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

...Bernard is a bearded journalist, masquerading as ''Tante Nicole," an advice-to-the-lovelorn columnist, who is a sort of tenderhearted Gallic Mary Haworth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 5, 1955 | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

...through the gloomy scenes, less expressive but considerably more agile than the dramatic version's Marlon Brando. ¶ Dancer-of-all-work John Kriza, 35, turned up in perhaps his most popular part, the cockiest sailor in Fancy Free, which had the audience giggling merrily, and as the lovelorn doll in Petrouchka, which had it misty-eyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lively Museum | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

...liquor license. The rest of the story tells how Dan is rescued from dry destruction and winds up in a saloonkeeper's heaven on Nob Hill. Like Dan's old tavern, the book is cluttered with all sorts of people-righteous madams, pining widows, pinko artists, lovelorn profs. It plays fast and loose with San Francisco's dignity-not to mention the Dutch master's. But it is big, breezy, and stacked with lusty action-more like a Bruegel than a Rembrandt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Apr. 11, 1955 | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

...laughs and questions swirled about her head, Post Lovelorn Editor Jane Sterling (real name: Doris Hilton) put a notice in her column: "Phyllis C.: Please call my office." Next day, Editor Sterling got a phone call from a man, who refused to give his name. Yes, he knew Phyllis C.; she was his sister-in-law. She was out of the city, but would call when she returned. Next day, the man himself called on Editor Sterling-with a confession. Feeling guilty about all the publicity, he admitted that he had written the letter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Letter | 12/6/1954 | See Source »

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