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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also awkwardly resolved: the play ended with the girl surviving the abortion-and only then did the walls of noncommunication tumble -but the movie tacks on a climactic chase in the night, in which the boy's father snatches the girl from danger, then gives his son enough money to go off and get married somewhere, presumably anywhere, so long as it's away from home. This dubious happy ending suggests an even more dubious moral: Go as far as you like, kids, but admit everything, and then it's possible to get the hell away from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 10, 1959 | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

Even more admirable is Actress Carolyn Jones, who is required to deliver most of the old chestnuts ("Put your money where your mouths are"), but manages to give moviegoers one of the funniest, freakiest, most cussedly appealing heroines since Bette Davis, whom she strongly suggests, played the down-South tart in Jezebel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 10, 1959 | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

...appearance unimportant; he also learned that his vows would not be strict prohibitions, but he was asked to promise that he "would try" not to kill, steal, touch the opposite sex, lie, get drunk, eat after noontime, dance or sing, use cosmetics, sleep in a comfortable bed, handle money. He was now ready to be ordained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: 90-Day Priests | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

...Grievous Suffering." When they first met on the Purdue University campus, Students Reiner and Klaus haggled over the price of a secondhand psychology textbook that Reiner wanted to sell. Says Klaus: "The argument was academic. I didn't have any money." Klaus and Reiner soon found a source. After Minneapolis-Honeywell offered Reiner a postgraduation job-and then withdrew the offer-they drove to Minneapolis, badgered the company into a cash settlement on grounds of "inconvenience and grievous mental suffering." They headed for California, opened a candy business that folded when World War II came along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Successful Schizophrenia | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

...Brains & Money. Though the growing company needed Reiner's inventive genius and Klaus's gift for selling, the partners haggled constantly about how to run the business. ''All of a sudden," says Klaus, "we found we couldn't afford that luxury. What we needed was action, not conversation." They split management duties down the middle, isolated themselves from each other except for a Monday dinner, at which they make all corporate decisions. Says Klaus: "Ken Reiner's the brains of this outfit. As for me, I figure if you don't have brains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Successful Schizophrenia | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

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