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...their research, Drs. John E. Snell, Richard J. Rosenwald and Ames Robey dealt with 37 cases referred to them by Massachusetts courts. Most of the husbands, the doctors discovered, fell into a definite pattern. Though reasonably hard-working and outwardly respectable, they were in reality "shy, sexually ineffectual mother's boys." The wives also fitted a pattern-"aggressive, efficient, masculine and sexually frigid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Psychiatry: The Wife Beater & His Wife | 9/25/1964 | See Source »

...convince him that the world now acknowledges him both as an artist and as a public figure of standing and respect. In a New Year's Honors List which also included a barony for longtime Cabinet Minister Leslie Hore-Belisha and knighthoods for 84-year-old Comedian George Robey and ex-Foreign Office News Chief William Ridsdale. Queen Elizabeth II made Epstein a Knight Commander Order of the British Empire. From now on Jacob Epstein, born 73 years ago on Manhattan's lower East Side, a British subject since before World War I, will be Sir Jacob...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sir Jacob | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

Parties & Outlooks. Almost the first official act of the government last June was to release Sydney Robey Leibbrandt and others convicted of pro-Nazi agitation and anti-war activities during World War II (TIME, June 28). The government then rescinded Field Marshal Smuts's order forbidding members of two antiSemitic, ultranationalist organizations-Ossewa Brandwag and the Afrikaner Broederbond-to hold civil service positions. The Broederbond, of which Prime Minister Malan is a member and his Minister of the Interior, Dr. Theophilus Dönges, vice chairman, is now the real ruler of the Union of South Africa. The sinister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Revolution | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

William H. Robey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Roster of Alumni Returning for AHC Post-Victory Meeting | 6/4/1946 | See Source »

Falstaff's death scene, for which the speeches were lifted bodily from Henry IV, Part 2, is boldly invented. The shrunken, heartbroken old companion of Henry's escapades (George Robey, famed British low comedian) hears again, obsessively, the terrible speech ("A man ... so old and so profane. . . .") in which the King casts him off. In this new context, for the first time perhaps, the piercing line, "The king has kill'd his heart," is given its full power. In the transition scene which takes the audience from Falstaff's death to the invasion of France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Masterpiece | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

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