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...Michael Lay's music. Ziegler starts each song with real promise: the words are crisp and the rhymes ingenious; then, just where he needs a punch line on each verse, he rests on his creative oars. The result is insipid lyrics, more annoying because they could shine through to redeem the book...

Author: By Arthur J. Langguth, | Title: Happy Medium | 12/1/1954 | See Source »

Then, on Sept. 3, the Reds opened up and sent the first of 10,000 shells screaming over. This was the time, if ever, to "take the wraps" off the Nationalists and redeem the pledge given by Washington in early 1953. For 48 hours frantic messages flew between Taipei and Washington, and then it came : permission for the Nationalist air force to hit the attacking artillery and Communist shipping which might be massing to invade. The small Nationalist navy received similar orders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Importance of Quemoy | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

Last week Hurricane blew into Manhattan's Madison Square Garden to redeem himself. His mother had stopped nagging, he said. Like a good boy, Tommy had been trotting ten miles daily on the Rockaway Beach boardwalk. In Stillman's Gym he had been pushing sparring partners around as he polished up his wild assortment of slaps, jabs, backhanded cuffs and spectacular double uppercuts. He had bothered little with the big bag. "Phooey to that," said Hurricane. "I like to box with guys. A big bag can't punch back. I like to get hit. Then I fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Big Wind | 6/7/1954 | See Source »

...TIME going to redeem itself in the eyes of my Norwegian wife for moving Norway over into Sweden, as shown by R. M. Chapin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 21, 1953 | 12/21/1953 | See Source »

...nightly. One, The Little Hut, was brought to the United States last month after a three year run in Britain. It lasted about a week o Broadway. Another of the trio, T.S. Eliot's The Confidential Clerk, is being readied for a New York premiere this season, possibly to redeem British drama in the eyes of this country. By the time Eliot's verse play arrives, however, it may have a task of double redemption. The third London hit, Escapade, is now on display in Boston and it is as glibly boring as The Little...

Author: By Arthur J. Langguth, | Title: Escapade | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

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