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The son of a piano manufacturer, Rolfe became a Roman Catholic convert at 26, studied for the priesthood but was expelled from his seminary in Rome. For the rest, he was a weirdly gifted writer, schoolmaster, painter, photographer, workhouse inmate, homosexual, paranoiac, and perhaps the most merciless autobiographer ever to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mad but Memorable | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

Chief credit clearly belongs to Mervyn (Quo Vadis, No Time for Sergeants) Le-Roy, the old Hollywood pro who directed the picture. Under his skillful guidance. Actress Simmons gives one of her most sensitive and graceful performances. And even Rhonda Fleming has been persuaded to make a variety of facial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 10, 1958 | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

They had reached the coast of the Black Sea. The long battle odyssey of some 1,500 miles was over, for here were Greek cities, and here should have been an end of fighting. But the end of fighting brought the beginning of distrust. The soldiers turned against each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Battle Odyssey | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

A Pan American World Airways plane crash near Lisbon in 1943 all but ended the big-time careers of throaty Singer Jane (With a Song in My Heart) Froman and Accordionist Gypsy Markoff, both bound overseas to entertain troops. It was five years before Jane could walk again without crutches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 24, 1958 | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

Patricia Adel has a face that can freeze into a vividly discomforting mask; her movement is sometimes less successful, although properly awkward. Lucienne Schupf, extremely energetic, skillfully emphasizes the over-theatrical, nearly manic-depressive moods of her pitiful character. She throws sparks into an atmosphere that is designed to baffle...

Author: By Larry Hartmann, | Title: The Maids | 1/10/1958 | See Source »

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