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...Tailor's Maid (Royal; Trans-Lux) presents Italy's suave Vittorio De Sica as a rich tailor who loves to wrap his charms around female customers. "A tailor," he suggestively tells a pretty matron, "is like a doctor, dear lady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 7, 1959 | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

...fact that his 16-year-old daughter has, since her last fitting, developed a 35-inch bust herself, and is holding furtive assignations with a school chum in the ruins of ancient Rome. "We teach our children how to be children," reflects one of the characters in The Maid. "But has anyone taught us how to be fathers? We have to play it by ear." And that is how they play the whole picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 7, 1959 | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

...discredit Mather, Powers' supporters muttered darkly about "the educator with the maids and chauffeurs." (Mather has one maid; a non-uniformed university mechanic occasionally drives his car.) Mather is also the nation's lowest-paid public university president ($15,000 a year). But the propaganda cut deep; Mather resigned largely to "stop this personal monkey business" (he will stay through next June). To Educator Mather, it seems unlikely that culture-conscious Massachusetts will lose one of its oddest distinctions-spending less (2.32%) of the tax dollar for higher education than any other state in the Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Massachusetts Morass | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

Married. Steven Clark Rockefeller, 23, second son of New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller; and Anne-Marie Rasmussen, 21, former maid in the Rockefeller's Manhattan household; in Sogne, Norway (see FOREIGN NEWS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 31, 1959 | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

...return far behind her and to pass as a Christian. By a fast shuffle of the cards of identity, she turns up in Austria as Katarina Leszczyszyn, a Ukrainian D.P., peasant-merry and eager for work. An Austrian railroad executive and his wife hire her as a maid, and she does so well that they want to adopt her. Ironically, doctors find Eva "a perfect specimen of the Aryan race." (Author Levin seems to have a fix on naked physical strip-downs ; the book offers at least three.) But adoption would mean discovery of Eva's false documents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sagas of Survival | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

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