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...ever there was a people ripe for a dictatorship, it is the American people today," playwright-novelist Gore Vidal, author of Visit to a Small Planet, said yesterday afternoon...
...first five or six years after the retreat to Formosa, the Generalissimo regularly spoke of reconquering the mainland "next year." Today it has become "soon" or "when the time is ripe." Aware of U.S. fears that a Nationalist attack on the mainland might lead to World War III, Chiang has also come to emphasize that "there is no need for a world war or for the U.S. to participate, directly...
...what street they want to live on. The hero of the latest Marquand. Playwright Tom Harrow, has been living on Easy Street for a quarter-century, and his wives with him. Now, with financial disaster an accomplished fact, his third wife, once a beautiful actress lately going a little ripe, pastes him with a shocking half-truth: "And what did I get? It's about time someone told you - a conceited, washed-out. middle-aged has-been, and not even much of a lover. My God. why didn't I see the fallacy in all the lousy plays...
...section you discuss the paintings of Abstract Expressionist Alfonso Ossorio. In the Aug. 25 issue you reproduce two portraits: Goya's Don Vicente Osorio, a young Spanish prince, and Millais' Cherry Ripe, a girl of four who is today Signora Edie Ossorio, aged 84. Their names are almost identical. Are they related...
...Publishing Co. (TIME, Feb. 17), which overhauled the little-known historical quarterly, American Heritage, in 1954. saw it soar as a bright new bimonthly to a circulation of more than 300,000. Unlike Heritage, which was begun on an initial investment of $65,000, Horizon blossomed forth after a ripe overture of expensive nourishes and drum pounding...