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It was straight, stock-in-trade western fare. From all over the courtroom, angry cattlemen glowered at the captured rustler. And the rustler himself, a bull-necked hombre who liked heavy gambling and fancy women, was perfectly cast. All that marred the illusion was the scene of the trial-not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Mercedes on the Range | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

As adapted for the movies by Jean-Paul Sartre, the Salem witch trials emerge as a plot by the aristocracy to chastize and control the stiff-necked rabble of the town. Thus, in the movie version, Proctor chooses to die for a cause rather than to preserve his own integrity...

Author: By Alice E. Kinzler, | Title: The Crucible | 10/6/1959 | See Source »

The lean, craggy face peering with a squinty smile into the spotlight had rarely been seen by U.S. audiences, although a few first-nighters might remember it as belonging to the guttily amoral Corsican truck driver in the film Wages of Fear. At 37. Singer Yves Montand is France'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BROADWAY: Troubadour from France | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

Agony & Ambition. In Wolfe at Quebec, Historian Hibbert penetrates the fog of hero worship to describe the soldier as he really was-a gangly, slack-chinned, irascible young man in constant pain from a kidney disease. Commissioned at 14, James Wolfe had earned a reputation as a priggish martinet who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Smell of Powder | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

Just as if she cannot believe her success, Felicia sweats out each entrance with nail-gnawing tension. But once in the spotlight, the lady is a cool and practiced performer. The nervous novice who got her first big break six years ago as the unknown vocalist on Percy Faith'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGHTCLUBS: Lady in the Light | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

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