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This morning, however-while tarts forked over to the barkeep pimp, and a young anarchist stool pigeon crawled in to hide away-the bums were waiting for a highflying drummer named Hickey, who once a year threw them a big party and got as drunk as they did. But when * Outstanding in the Theatre Guild's generally good production were Robert Edmond Jones's sets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Ordeal of Eugene O'Neill | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

...crusade against corruption." The climax came when Vicente Lombardo Toledano, famed, currently anti-American, pro-leftist labor leader, gave the nominating speech for Miguel Aleman as the party's presidential candidate in the July 7 elections. Lombardo Toledano denounced the opposition candidate, idealistic Ezequiel Padilla, as a "pimp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Lombardo for Alem | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

Ambitious, egocentric, leftist Lombardo Toledano had tried to make political hay for Government-sponsored presidential candidate Miguel Alemán by tossing up the ever-popular charge of "Yankee intervention." Oppositionist candidate Ezequiel Padilla, implied the labor chieftain, was a "pimp" and a "quisling" whom imperialistic U.S. companies were using, along with the Sinarquistas, as the basis for a budding rightist rebellion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Show Down | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

...City Center itself put on a lusty Frankie and Johnnie ballet which might well have attracted a censor's attention (see Music). Taunted Daily News Critic John Chapman in his review: "License Commissioner Paul Moss last night sponsored a dirty show which had in it bawds, a pimp and a couple of Lesbians." And Columnist Leonard Lyons recalled that Moss once co-produced Noel Coward's This Was a Man, which the Lord Chamberlain banned in England as indecent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Broadway Censor | 3/12/1945 | See Source »

...Cannery Row is given over to an account of Mack's party for Doc. But little anecdotes of Monterey life slip in between the chapters: the story of William, the bouncer at the brothel, who was high-hatted by Mack's gang (said Mack, "I hate a pimp") and disconsolately stuck an ice pick in his heart; the story of Mr. & Mrs. Malloy, who in 1935 moved into an abandoned boiler in a vacant lot on Cannery Row, and quarreled because Mrs. Malloy wanted curtains for the windows that weren't there; the true story of Josh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Bowery of Monterey | 1/1/1945 | See Source »

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