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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pone simpleton (Ruby Dee) who says things like "Indo. I deed." Here is the unlicensed preacher hero, Purlie Victorious Judson (Ossie Davis)-a liar, a braggart, a trickster, and the self-appointed messiah of his race ("Who else is they got?"). And here, too, is the neo-Confederate villain, Ol' Cap'n Cotchipee (Sorrell Booke), a Simon Legree plantation owner equipped (in A.D. 1961) with a bull whip and not-quite-so-unbelievable quips ("You tryin' to get non-violent with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Uncle Tom Exhumed | 10/6/1961 | See Source »

Today's game marks the first meeting between Yovicsin and Engineer coach Bill Leckonby since 1958, when Harvard won, 20 to 0. That's right, little boy, "their coach is the Yale quarterback's ol' man"--and maybe the last father-to-son discussion in the Leckonby house-hold included a little bit more than "And what are you taking for courses this year, my son?" Overall, Yovicsin has had poor luck against Lehigh. At Getysburg, he met Leckonby five times--and lost four...

Author: By James R. Ullyot, | Title: Varsity Football Team Faces Lehigh In Opening Contest of 1961 Season | 9/30/1961 | See Source »

...Herm" is Herman Cohen, an independent movie producer and one of the current wonders of the American entertainment industry. Most of his friends call him "Herm," but he likes to refer to himself at times as "ol' H.C."--as in, "If Konga flops, you can bet ol' H.C. isn't going to say, 'Let's give em another one.'" Herm made his name in the entertainment world when he wrote and produced the legendary I Was a Teenage Werewolf for American International Pictures. He followed that success with several more--including I was a Teenage Frankenstein, Blood of Dracula...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Herman Cohen | 3/23/1961 | See Source »

Last week the President defined the aim of Alianza para el Progreso in an article he wrote for LIFE EN ESPAÑOL. The U.S. Latin American policy goal will be achieved, said the President, "only when every form of tyranny-either despotic rule at home or domination from abroad -is driven from the hemisphere." Last week, even a Latin America preoccupied with pre-Lenten carnivals could see that the President was out to give substance to his words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Americas: Alliance for Progress | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

Dorothy could not abide hearing the composer praised at Oscar's expense. When people at parties referred to "Jerome Kern's Ol' Man River," she would snap: "Oscar Hammerstein wrote Ol' Man River...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BROADWAY: A Healing Guy | 9/5/1960 | See Source »

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