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Eugenia began life, under its maiden name of The Europeans, as a Henry James novel. After 78 years it has emerged-in Randolph Carter's adaptation-as a vehicle for Tallulah Bankhead. Thereby, dead and dangling from its gibbet, hangs a tale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Feb. 11, 1957 | 2/11/1957 | See Source »

Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art elected Mrs. William Randolph Hearst Sr., 75, widow of the art-amassing publisher, as a benefactress, announced the simultaneous receipt of donations from the Hearst Foundation: three 17th century British interiors, some old chunks of European architecture, a Roman copy in marble of a 5th century B.C. statue of Hermes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 4, 1957 | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

...meaning of wealth . . . was that it should be translated into an environment of beauty and dignity, as its proper appanages; and that once the eye was trained to the pursuit, the appeal of great craftsmanship was irresistible, and its ownership a justification of one's position." Mrs. William Randolph Hearst Sr., a close personal friend of Mrs. Rovensky, put it more simply: "It was one of the most beautiful houses in New York with the most exquisite things in it. It's one of the last great houses, fine houses. It's the end of a wonderful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: End of an Avenue | 1/21/1957 | See Source »

...Very Unsettling." Admiral Brown's Sunday punch is Task Force 60, built around the 45,000-ton attack carrier Coral Sea with some 100 planes, the 40,000-ton Randolph with 80 planes, the heavy cruisers Salem and Macon, and about twelve destroyers. Task Forces 61 and 62 are amphibious groups that can put ashore a reinforced Marine battalion that will soon be equipped with atomic rocket weapons. Task Force 66, recently detached, but on constant call, is a submarine hunter-killer group led by Antietam, a 30,000-ton attack carrier with 80 planes. All together, this taut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: The Steel-Grey Stabilizer | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

Detective Story. In Buffalo, ordered to clear the streets of underworldlings after an outbreak of wrongdoing, police dredged up Randolph Benson, charged him with disorderly conduct after they searched him, found he was equipped with a knife, a length of rubber hose and a volume entitled: The Blue Book of Crime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 24, 1956 | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

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