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Scrambling fact in a free-for-all of oldtime comedy styles, Magnificent Men invents a Great London-Paris Air Race in the year 1910. The competition, sponsored by British Publishing Tycoon Robert Morley, soon becomes a contest between a rugged U.S. barnstormer (Stuart Whitman) and an airborne English aristocrat (James Fox), each determined to win the day and the tycoon's daughter, Sarah Miles, precisely the sort of flibbertigibbet Josephine who might lose her heart-and through frequent entanglements, her hobble skirt-to a daring young man in a flying machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Craft of Comedy | 6/18/1965 | See Source »

...JACK PAAR PROGRAM (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Comic Jonathan Winters and Actor Robert Morley are guests, along with Singer Robert Goulet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: May 28, 1965 | 5/28/1965 | See Source »

...JACK PAAR PROGRAM (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). With Robert Morley, Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme. Color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Feb. 12, 1965 | 2/12/1965 | See Source »

Bogart plays the leader of an international group of "desperate characters" that includes old "Bogie" veteran Peter Lorre and newcomer Robert Morley. The "characters" are on their way to British East Africa to look for uranium, but their ship is held over in Southern Italy for repairs. While they wait, Bogart gets involved with fellow passenger Jennifer Jones, a gold-digging prevaricating English "gentlewoman;" her husband develops an interest in Bogart's wife, Gina Lolobrigida; and Bogey's pals begin to suspect that he's about to sell them out. The ship sails and sinks, and the passengers are stranded...

Author: By John Manners, | Title: A Viewer's Guide to Bogart: Four Classics, Huston's Joke | 1/21/1965 | See Source »

...poems, particularly The Waste Land, confused many established critics, enraged others. Christopher Morley even suggested that The Waste Land, and its celebrated six pages of notes, was a hoax. W. B. Yeats found Eliot's poems flat, unrhythmical, colorless, "working without apparent imagination." But years later, Rose Macaulay recalled The Waste Land's first impact: "Beyond and through the dazzling, puzzling technique, the verbal fascination, the magpie glitter of the borrowed and adapted phrases that brought a whole chorus of literature into service, enriching and extending every theme-beyond and through all this there was the sharp sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: T. S. ELIOT: He knew the anguish of the marrow, the ague of the skeleton | 1/15/1965 | See Source »

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