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...heavyweight match was the crowd-pleaser, but the best boxing of the tournament came in the 175-pound contest, which Wilson won with a close decision over last year's champion Bob Hagabak...

Author: By Peter R. Kann, | Title: Rick Rice Floors Miller, Keeps Heavyweight Crown | 3/8/1963 | See Source »

After 49 years in Congress, Senate President pro Tempore Carl Hayden, 83, now stands third in line of succession to the White House (after Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn). Last week the Arizona Democrat won an even more impressive title: first lady-pleaser of the land. Hayden's credentials, as proclaimed by a bouquet-bearing delegation from the League of Women Voters: he is the only incumbent Congressman to have voted for the 19th Amendment, which ushered in female suffrage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 25, 1961 | 8/25/1961 | See Source »

Biggest crowd pleaser in the show was a Jaguar XKE which, powered by a 265-h.p. engine, will do 150 m.p.h. Price: the hardtop coupe, $6,320 (P.O.E. East Coast), and the convertible $525 cheaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: Compacts v. the World | 4/7/1961 | See Source »

Tall, handsome Pierre Lagaillarde added to the indictment. A 29-year-old doctor of law, Deputy in the National Assembly of the Fifth Republic and a demagogic crowd pleaser, Lagaillarde had been a passionate Gaullist in May 1958, when Algeria's Europeans set off the train of events that brought De Gaulle back to power by storming the 14-story Algiers Government General Building. Now, he demanded of his nine judges: "If in May 1958 I was not blamed for taking a public building by assault, why should they blame me for last January?" Derisively, he added: "A plot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Barricades Trial | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

...become the criterion in the Loeb to the neglect of art is not as terrifying as it sounds. Plays are not "for" audiences in the sense in which rings are for fingers or America is for the Americans. The relation is not one of possession or even one of pleaser and pleased: to Brecht, for example, whose plays are "for" audiences in the most explicit sense, the last thing de- sired was that the audience should be "pleased" in any fashion Broadway understands. The playwright's task and the actor's and the director's and the designer...

Author: By Archibald Macleish, BOYLSTON PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC AND AND MEMBER OF THE FACULTY COMMITTE | Title: Loeb's Function, 'Plays for Audiences,' Not Inconsistent with Artistic Integrity | 10/14/1960 | See Source »

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