Search Details

Word: marquands (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

What John Marquand has done for the ambitious Harvardman in rebellion against his New England background, Boston-born-and-bred Helen Howe* sets out to do for the Harvardman's ambitious wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Marquand Wife | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

...like each of Marquand's heroes. Helen Howe's heroine discovers (surprise!) that success is not enough. Her husband comes home from the war dreaming of a Japanese mistress. Her daughter turns from Maggie to a tweedy aunt and the earthy delights of raising sheep dogs. An old school chum, who had stayed home all these years having babies, gains fame as a poet. Alone and unanchored. Maggie would like to believe she is simply paying the price for having lived too hard, "but fear gripped her suddenly that she had not lived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Marquand Wife | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

...documentary of Buffoon Danny Kaye's 32,000-mile junket for the U.N.'s Children's Emergency Fund. Martin Manulis' Playhouse 90, the chain's most ambitious drama project, offers adaptations of Charley's Aunt, Kay Thompson's Eloise, J. P. Marquand's Sincerely, Willis Wayde, and Shirley Booth in The Perle Mesta Story. Jack Benny returns this month from a successful BBC stint loaded with film shot in Europe (including a Paris show with Benny and Maurice Chevalier). In November the U.S. Air Force joins forces with CBS Public Affairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: And Away We Go | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

Matinee Theater uses more scripts, actors, directors and properties than any other show on the air. Since its first show (J. P. Marquand's Beginning Now), some 2,000 actors have slipped in and out of 5,000 costumes for Matinee's forays into contemporary drama (93), comedy (35), period pieces (20) and the classics (11). Actor-Crooner John Conte has clocked in a record 3,240 minutes of work on-camera as the show's host...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Drama Factory | 8/20/1956 | See Source »

White Jade in Hong Kong. To most Seattleites, the man behind their "Bird in Art" show is perhaps the rarest bird of all: Millionaire Museum Director Richard E. Fuller, 59, Manhattan-born, Yale-educated cousin of Novelist J. P. Marquand. With his mother, the late Mrs. Margaret Fuller, Art Patron Fuller put up $300,000 in 1933 to build Seattle's hilltop museum. Fuller has served as president and full-time director ever since. In return, Seattle awarded him its first "Man of the Year" civic-service award...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Rare Bird | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

Previous | 85 | 86 | 87 | 88 | 89 | 90 | 91 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 100 | 101 | 102 | 103 | 104 | 105 | Next