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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ Art Carney, as the Stage Manager in Thornton Wilder's Our Town (NBC). "Nothing should stand out about this guy," said Carney about his role, and he may have carried a good judgment too far, was sometimes too emotionless compared to the rest of the cast, directed by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Top of the Week | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

After she won a Fulbright scholarship to study in Italy, she got her big break in 1956 when she won the title role in an Italian TV production of Butterfly. Overnight Italy claimed her. "A voice of the sweetness and brilliance of our heavens!" wrote the Carriere della Sera critic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Girl from Radnor High | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

Average age of the students is close to 37. Attending class at night, they can earn only about 15 credit hours a year (half the normal rate), and the consequences of cutting class are clear. One jet pilot, forced to eject over Newfoundland, landed in bush so wild that a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Global Campus | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

Kelly & Jelly. To juvenile minstrels, adult foibles are fit for parodies that spread with lightning speed. During the crisis over King Edward VIII's abdication in 1936, when censorship hushed grownups, English children everywhere blithely chanted: "Hark, the Herald Angels sing,/ Mrs. Simpson's pinched our King."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Secret World | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

In direct charge of the project is Harvard-trained Astronomer Frank Drake, 29. His assumption is that if other civilizations do exist, some must be more advanced than the one on Earth. "We would expect," says Drake, "to find scattered throughout our galaxy, planets from which radio transmissions more powerful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Anybody Out There? | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

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