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...lost contact with the classics, and it was high time someone did something about it. What was needed, said Pound, was a whole new series of translations, freed of the false and stilted elegance of those then in print. "The border line between 'gee whiz' and Milton's tumified* dialect must exist," Pound wrote. Why didn't his friend try to find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Homer for Moderns | 6/2/1952 | See Source »

...model and longtime movie star (54 films in the past 20 years), Lucille Ball is currently the biggest success in television. In six months her low-comedy antics, ranging from mild mugging to baggy-pants clowning, have dethroned such veteran TV headliners as Milton Berle and Arthur Godfrey. One of the first to see the handwriting on the TV screen was Funnyman Red Skelton, himself risen to TV's top ten. Last February, when he got the award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences as the top comic of the year, Skelton walked to the microphone and said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Sassafrassa, the Queen | 5/26/1952 | See Source »

...boys' lawyer, Milton Kafka, said he would meet early next week with the Camachos, and thinks they "will probably drop the charges...

Author: By Laurence D. Savadove, | Title: Pair ClaimP hone Case 'Frame-Up' | 5/24/1952 | See Source »

...Harvard Liberal Union recently elected the following officers: president, Milton S. Gwirtzman '54; vice-president, Frank I. Goodman '54; secretary, Jerry D. Anker '55; political action chairman. Frank A. Rhuland '54; film series chairman, Carl A. Wagner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Liberal Union Elects Gwirtzman President | 5/21/1952 | See Source »

...distinguished by the high-quality slapstick of carrot-topped Comedienne Lucille Ball and her handsome Cuban-born husband, Desi Arnaz. Filmed especially for television in Hollywood, Lucy's combination of well-written scripts and rowdy good humor proved popular enough last month to displace both Arthur Godfrey and Milton Berle, and thus became the nation's No. i TV attraction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The First 10 Million | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

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