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Smoothly troweled and thoroughly entertaining, North by Northwest wears its implausibilities lightly, bobs swiftly past colored picture postcard backgrounds from Madison Avenue to South Dakota's Mount Rushmore, the U.N. Secretariat to George Washington's wattles. As the story begins. Adman Gary Grant has little on his mind but Trendex and his waistline (he reminds himself to "think thin") until enemy agents mistake him for a U.S. counterspy and kidnap him from a cocktail lounge in the Hotel Plaza. Spy Ringleader James Mason (as polished and heavy as a Kremlin banister) invites Grant to spill all he knows...
Adenauer admitted he had had some adverse mail himself; his favorite postcard, he chuckled, bore only three words: "Sie alter Gauner [You old scoundrel...
...Mating Game (MGM) is a busy B that crudely tramples among The Darling Buds of May, a riotously ribald novel by Britain's H. E. Bates (TIME, May 26, 1958), and reduces it to a nice, safe, bring-the-whole-family outing in the postcard pastures of Maryland...
...have worked out a plan whereby they might enjoy the benefit of this international service. Last summer we tested such a service with several hundred TIME families then planning overseas trips who wanted TIME to go with them. With their enthusiastic cooperation (they sent us postcard reports each week on the magazine's arrival), the plan worked. And now that we know it is feasible, we are happy to extend it to all subscribers to the U.S. and Canada editions. Thus, wherever you are (well, ALMOST wherever), perhaps in the hotels pictured here, you will be able to receive...
...stage," says Synge, "one must have reality, and one must have joy," and so his County Mayo is neither postcard-picturesque nor socio-economically underprivileged. He allows the audience to hear it as "superb and wild," but for Pegeen Mike Flaherty, who lives in it, it is "this place where you'll meet none but Red Linahan, has a squint in his eye, and Patcheen is lame in his heel, or the mad Mulrannies were driven from California and they lost in their wits"--not a decent man in the lot. Since Pegeen is a romantic, brainy, and spirited girl...