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...Sullivan Show (Sun. 8 p.m., CBS). Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald ; Madam Butterfly, with Kirsten and Del Monaco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Jan. 28, 1957 | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

...comedy, though sometimes there is room for doubt, particularly when it comes to the episode about Edward's early service with an "infamous Major Kinryce." One day the unthinkable happens: Mrs. Kinryce tries to fire him. Edward "thought pityingly that she might be going mad. 'Excuse me, Madam, but you can't dismiss me. I only take notice from Major Kinryce.' Her cold eyes in her haggard face fixed him fearfully. 'I shot him just now with his old service pistol . . . You must go and fetch me a policeman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Jan. 21, 1957 | 1/21/1957 | See Source »

...queries: "Are the Life-Gods and the Fate-Gods willing?" Hilda is willing, and there is scarcely a dull moment spent with the count as he 1) sees his first roller-skating show wrecked by a storm, 2) witnesses a local bigwig being shot to death by a bordello madam, 3) two-times Hilda with a carnival doxy billed as ''Phazma the Phlame Girl." 4) has his second roller-skating show filched by a double-crossing partner, 5) goes back to the sea with visions of greater roller rinks. Obviously, Author Sancton, 41, a New Orleans newspaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Fiction | 12/31/1956 | See Source »

...House. In Milwaukee, Internal Revenue officials, agreeing to accept $23,000 plus a percentage of her future income in settlement for $81,656 in back taxes from Mae Yager, 67, a bawdyhouse proprietress, explained that the arrangement might prove more profitable than a forced sale of Madam Yager's assets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 31, 1956 | 12/31/1956 | See Source »

...shipped Madam Callas to Dallas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: War at the Opera | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

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