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Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton defended his action in rushing warships and troops to Guiana to prevent a Communist coup (TIME, Oct. 19). Lyttelton accused the Guiana People's Progressive Party of 1) seeking to establish a one-party Communist state, 2) spreading racial hatred. He cited evidence that Dr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Sledge Hammer in Guiana | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

Early in the first act of Gently Does It, Anthony Oliver kills his first wife. In the last scene of the second act, he kills himself. In between these deaths, Janet Green's new play displays an utter lack of originality; in fact, only some expert character portrayals save it...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: Gently Does It | 10/20/1953 | See Source »

Billed as a thriller, Gently Does It scares no one. And a steady stream of undisguised hints wash away any trace of suspense. Against a background of urban England, Oliver, as Edward Bare, plays a limey opportunist who, for a chance to travel abroad, kills one wife and marries a...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: Gently Does It | 10/20/1953 | See Source »

Last April, British Guiana, the Kansas-sized land of jungle, mountains and coastal sugar lands that is Britain's only colony on the South American continent, held its first popular elections under a newly granted constitution-and returned the first openly pro-Communist government ever to hold office in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH GUIANA: Kicking Out the Communists | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

Died. Frank Munn, 58, Bronx-born tenor, "The Golden Voice of Radio" during the '30s and early '40s; of a heart attack; in New York City. A policeman's son, he learned to sing by memorizing popular recordings, mimicking what he heard. As "Paul Oliver" on radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 12, 1953 | 10/12/1953 | See Source »

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