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...Anxious to get away from the flabby, fragmented routine of working on motion pictures or taping TV shows, the actors are willing to work for Equity minimum just to submit themselves to the sterner discipline of the stage. Robert Ryan starred in the group's Sodom and Gomorrah, Nina Foch in U.S.A., Edie Adams and Eileen Heckart in Mother Courage. Last week Paula Prentiss and Dan O'Herlihy opened in Houseman's superb new production of Measure for Measure, and the group's next production will be the world premiere of a new play based...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Stage: The Moonlighter | 1/26/1962 | See Source »

...slowests-20,000 records in all. Its students can learn that the creature with the most sensitive sniffer is the male silkworm moth, which can detect a female two miles away; that the longest place name belongs to the New Zealand village of Taumatawhakatangihangakoauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu; and that Mrs. Beverly Nina Avery, a Los Angeles barmaid, holds the record for most spouses in a monogamous society, with 14 husbands, five of whom, she once alleged, broke her nose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Superlative Selection | 1/19/1962 | See Source »

...discover, for it is natural enough that in the chaotic sickness of a starving people's retreat would be many individual calamities. But Aten and his ghostwriter cannot leave well enough alone- throughout the middle part of the book appear such signposts as "It was as if, with Nina's departure (her unit had been ordered away), mercy left us and the sky fell in." Spelling things out has its virtues, but this is a little too much...

Author: By Frederic L. Ballard jr., | Title: Beleguered Bolsheviks: Attacks by Cossacks and Capitalists | 10/14/1961 | See Source »

Capping it all was tea with Nina Petrovna Khrushchev at the Moscow House of Friendship. Russia's first lady remained friendly even when one of her guests asked her, over apples and chocolates, to "convey to your husband the deep concern we feel that within the past month the Soviet Union has tested 17 atom bombs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: March to Moscow | 10/13/1961 | See Source »

...most certainly shall tell him that," said Nina Petrovna. "We are also concerned over the necessity of these tests." Earlier the same day, Russia had exploded Bomb No. 18, the biggest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: March to Moscow | 10/13/1961 | See Source »

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