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...supporting roles represent different attitudes towards love and marriage. Of these the best-drawn are Friar Laurence and the Nurse; but their portrayals, by Hiram Sherman and Aline MacMahon, fall short. Morris Carnovsky as Capulet and Nancy Wickwire as his Lady are both commendable; Capulet's denunciation of Juliet is particularly forceful...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Romeo and Juliet | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

...complaisance, there are those who still keep a wary eye on the lazing erstwhile king. "Sure." said Broadway-TV Actor Horace (Naked City) MacMahon, "you're always hearing people say, 'Well, Winchell can't fight any more.' Maybe so, but it's like old Sugar Ray Robinson-you know anybody wants to fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Aging Lion | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

...hapless romance with a married office chum (Wendell Corey) and ruin her chances for a normal life, or does she destroy her present happiness for an acceptable future emptiness? "I'll never love anyone as much," she says. "Maybe you can learn to," pleads her mother (Aline MacMahon). Retorts her daughter: "Maybe I'll have to learn to. That's what you mean, isn't it?" By ending the play at that point, Director Herbert Hirschman avoided both facile moralism and easy sentimentalism. Though Actor Corey was as good in his moments of stress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

...bolster free-world defenses, the Administration last week urged Congress to rewrite the Atomic Energy (MacMahon) Act to give U.S. allies more atomic-weapons information, more nuclear material. But to many U.S. businessmen, a stronger atomic defense is only one side of the coin. They want some equally drastic changes in the U.S. atomic-energy program to develop commercial power for use throughout the power-hungry world. While AEChairman Lewis L. Strauss maintains that the commercial program is clipping right along, experts in Congress and industry disagree; they insist that commercial nuclear power must be sped up, or else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ATOMIC POWER: Industry Asks More Government Help for Program | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

...will offer (subject to congressional approval) to relax the restrictions of the MacMahon Act in order to share with its NATO partners U.S. know-how in the military uses of atomic energy. It will also propose increased cooperation in scientific education, training and research, with particular emphasis on joint effort in weapons development and manufacture. Likely specific proposals: establishment of a NATO fund for educating budding scientists, establishment of a NATO missiles training and research center, an all-NATO program for exchange of weapons blueprints and designs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATO: The View at the Summit | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

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