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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...show," the moviemakers advertise. "Stay home and watch television," the networks plead. "Ignore such frivolities," urge the publishers, "and read a good book!" Surveying this relentless but stimulating competition for the public's attention, TIME, beginning with this issue, launches a new weekly section that will present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 13, 1958 | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

...Monday, he conferred with President Eisenhower on Quemoy, found the President occupied and deeply disturbed by U.S. and Euro pean press criticism (see JUDGMENTS & PROPHECIES). On Tuesday, only minutes before his press conference, Dulles sent down for a handful of State Department mail to be picked out at random, read many letters from the U.S. public that said something like "Don't let's have a war just on account of Quemoy and Matsu," but many, many more that simply pleaded "Let's not get into a war." The basic U.S. policy on Quemoy-hold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Policy Under Pressure | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

Continuing its established Ford fund program, Dunster will sponsor a drama workshop under the direction of Gaynor F. Bradish '52, Teaching Fellow in English. The group hopes to read, write, and stage a number of plays...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot Spends Ford Gift On New Luncheon Series | 10/11/1958 | See Source »

...John Gielgud's Shakespeare's Ages of Man is a solo recital of some thirty speeches from the plays and about a dozen sonnets--which are read entire. I suspect that the production was invented as a vehicle for making money...

Author: By Daniel Field, | Title: Shakespeare's Ages of Man | 10/11/1958 | See Source »

...desecrations of this kind--to use his own description--must be done, Gielgud is the man to officiate. Everyone should see Gielgud; if one cannot see him in a play, better to see him read the Sunday Times than...

Author: By Daniel Field, | Title: Shakespeare's Ages of Man | 10/11/1958 | See Source »

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