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...wattles. As the story begins. Adman Gary Grant has little on his mind but Trendex and his waistline (he reminds himself to "think thin") until enemy agents mistake him for a U.S. counterspy and kidnap him from a cocktail lounge in the Hotel Plaza. Spy Ringleader James Mason (as polished and heavy as a Kremlin banister) invites Grant to spill all he knows. But all the adman knows has long since been run up flagpoles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 17, 1959 | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

...most successful fusion of spoken and unspoken words occurs in the craggy uplands of literature, where a talented ham can jump and shout without trampling the daisies. James Mason smacks and snuffles his way through the fevered minds of Andrea del Sarto, Fra Lippo Lippi and the tomb-haunted bishop in Poetry of Browning (Caedmon) in a reading that can illuminate a character with a sigh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Words in Rotation | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

Reckoning (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Perry Mason's summer replacement has to do with the tribulations of an off-duty cop (Paul Douglas) who has arrested an influential playboy for speeding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Jul. 13, 1959 | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

...cultural ambassador, to the world at large." James Gilluly, staff geologist, U.S. Geological Survey Sc.D. Citation: "Dean of American field geologists, inimitable investigator of the inanimate, he is the spiritual descendant of the classical giant Antaeus, who was never so strong as when his feet stood on terra firma." Mason W. Gross, newly elected president, Rutgers University LL.D. Clark Kerr, newly elected president,' University of California LL.D. Jean Monnet, French economist and statesman LL.D. Citation: "Fearless crusader against economic chaos, he has spent 40 fruitful years in the quest for order and equability among the free nations of Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos, Jun. 29, 1959 | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

...reported. Those of us in the South who still have control of our faculties are not responsible for the opinions of Mr. Balch and State Senator Eddins. It is unfortunate that many of your readers will identify this trite nonsense as the philosophy of all those south of the Mason-Dixon Line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 22, 1959 | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

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