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...Robinson, as the manufacturer, adds an element of power. Tormented by growing old, he evokes considerable interest and even compassion in his fight for a relationship and a life that even he himself is not sure will work out. Robinson can also stalk in and out of an overcoat with a gusto that dwarfs almost any action that anyone else performs on stage, partly because his better supporting actors have rather inactive roles...

Author: By Larry Hartmann, | Title: Middle of the Night | 10/17/1957 | See Source »

Laugh at the Laugh. When West first started to bat about with his phosgene-filled clown's bladder, he was an expatriate boulevardier in Paris, sporting umbrella and plaid overcoat among the beards and corduroy of the lost generation. The Dream Life of Balso Snell seems on the surface like one of those near-sophomoric, painfully private japes played for the semiprivate public of a little magazine. It concerns the dream adventures of Balso Snell, a poet, who enters a Trojan Horse from the rear end ("Anus Mirabilis!"), and encounters a number of symbolic characters in the murky interior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Great Despiser | 6/17/1957 | See Source »

Slim, blonde Ilona Toth, 25-year-old medical student, was charged with having murdered a patient, Istvan Kollar, with successive hypodermic injections of narcotics, gasoline and air. She had discovered, by a photograph of him in uniform, that Kollar was an AVH man. Dressed in a navy blue overcoat too big for her slight frame, Ilona Toth appeared in Budapest's gloomy municipal court with ten other Freedom Fighters chosen from the thousands in Kadar's jails. They were picked for trial, the middle-aged woman judge indicated, because they were "intellectuals, students...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: The Case Against Freedom | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

Despite the long journey, he was smiling as he walked slowly down the ramp at windswept Logan International Airport. He was tanned and wore a heavy, belted brown overcoat...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Eden Cuts Short N.Z. Vacation, Flies to Boston's Lahey Clinic; Snow Storm Hits Great Plains | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

...explain the President's request for authorization to 1) use U.S. forces, if requested, to defend any Middle Eastern nation against Communism, and 2) spend, without restriction, $200 million of already appropriated funds for Middle Eastern economic aid. Late the next afternoon, as he wearily pulled on his overcoat after questioning by the combined Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees, John Foster Dulles was pale and drawn. He had met not only the care ful, concerned sort of questions that the Senate is duty-bound to ask. but also the hectoring and badgering of a small group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Middle East Debate (Contd.) | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

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