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...mayor to Ohio Governor to U.S. Senator-a triple assist that Lausche himself acknowledges-and also helped elect present Health. Education and Welfare Commissioner Anthony Celebrezze to the Cleveland mayor's chair. >-Scripps-Howard's biggest newspaper, New York's World-Telegram and Sun, is a pale and lackluster product of three mergers that fails to give the chain an effective New York voice. Running in an afternoon field of second-rate competition, the World-Telegram features such Page One pap as a series of blurbs about the paper's rejiggering of its comic page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Chain Scripps Forged | 10/19/1962 | See Source »

...Nabakov and Kubrick have handled a lurid subject with humor and imagination. The result is very funny at times, though it hardly burns with a gem-like pale fire...

Author: By C. BOYDEN Gray, | Title: Lolita | 10/15/1962 | See Source »

Except for the neat sign that says "Northrop Institute of Technology," the pale green buildings look like any factory in bustling (aerospace) Inglewood, adjoining Los Angeles. This is fitting, for N.I.T. is the only U.S. campus spawned by an industrial corporation as an in-plant cram school and then successfully converted to a much respected nonprofit college, whose graduates now number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Company-to-Campus | 10/5/1962 | See Source »

Ostroff's touch is also lyrical ("I see your several faces, sculptured, each/An agony too pale for flesh to bear"), occasionally dramatic, now and then humorous. In Sören-Regina, based on Sören Kierkegaard's love for Regine Olsen, whose girl-child beauty haunted him all his life, he combines all his various talents in his wisest answer to the persisting theme of thought v. beauty, mind v. soul: I write, he said. Too stupid to fly, Too impure to do real magic, I, To work the transformation in a wink, Must painfully and tediously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Need to Know | 10/5/1962 | See Source »

...Pale and glum, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan listened in silence as leaders of the Old Dominions and the new nations of Africa and Asia challenged their onetime imperial ruler's right to decide her own future. Cried Jamaica's ebullient Prime Minister Sir Alexander Bustamante: "The Treaty of Rome is like a surgeon's knife thrust into the body of the Commonwealth, cutting off one member from another, dividing one friend from another." One of the angriest tirades of all came from Canada's Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, who warned: "We have spent 100 years resisting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Commonwealth: Passage to Europe | 9/21/1962 | See Source »

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