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Advise and Consent, by Allen Drury. This 616-page novel yawns for an editor's blue pencil, but New York Timesman Drury knows Washington from the inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Sep. 28, 1959 | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...studio is a small, skylit shed set amid four tranquil acres of Hertfordshire farm land, an hour north of London. Inside, workbenches are covered with old bones, sticks, water-smoothed pebbles, shells from the English coast and the Riviera sands. On the walls are curious drawings in pencil or in sallow greens, yellows and reds-disturbing, faceless human forms composed of lines, curves, shadows and holes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Maker of Images | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

Bank vaults refused to lock. Long queues of customers logjammed the aisles of supermarkets behind silent cash registers, while clerks frantically tried to add up their checks with old-fashioned pencil and paper. When police ordered evacuation of the New York Guild for the Jewish Blind, 200 patients easily felt their way out of the pitch-black building, leading their helpless doctors and nurses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Lights Out | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

...Blue Pencil. Almost from the start, the Soviet censors reneged on the government's promise to pass all copy unscathed. Glavlit, the Soviet censorship agency, combed some of the outgoing cables carefully, eliminating, among other things, mention of its own blue-pencil activity. The American Broadcasting Co. was ruled off the international air in Moscow" for "tampering" with Khrushchev's lines in his famed kitchen debate with Nixon at the American exhibition-a charge that the U.S. State Department promptly rejected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Roughing It in Russia | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

...enormous respect for learning, and in every photography studio, the appropriate props were on hand. "When the fellow posed you he said, 'How about a pair of eyeglasses?' You acted a bit coy, but you were very grateful to the man, especially when he also put a pencil in your hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jewish Will Rogers | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

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