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Obviously this sort of script calls for desperate measures. John D. Hancock, who directed, has taken them, but they are the wrong ones. In his efforts to stir up laughter, he has employed books, scrolls, wineskins, spectacles, a rolling pin, a gavel, quill pens, a pitcher, drinking glasses, an earring...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Three Farces | 2/27/1959 | See Source »

Feiffer calls himself a "serious humorist," speaks of "writing" a cartoon because of the supremacy of the words over the drawing. Using pared sticks (the kind that restaurants send out to stir coffee) as pens, he usually gets his drawing right the first try. But he has rewritten captions as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sick, Sick, Well | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

The art of it all lies in the bone-dry wit and intelligence with which Novelist Austen ordered and fixed this stately marital bear garden; no novelist, before or since, ever trod more precisely the thin borderlines that divide the heart from the purse, the ambitions from the conventions, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jane Extended | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

Using six pens to be handed out as souvenirs, President Eisenhower signed the proclamation in the White House at 12:01 p.m., Jan. 3, 1959 that admitted Alaska to the Union as the 49th state. Last state to be admitted: Arizona, Feb. 14, 1912. Reason for the precise timing: the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: New Stars, Old Stripes | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

Using six more pens, the President next signed an executive order designating a new 49-star national flag to become official on the Fourth of July. Design of the new flag: seven staggered rows of seven white stars set in a blue canton within the field of 13 alternate red...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: New Stars, Old Stripes | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

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