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...rotten harvest from the decision to recall General MacArthur is now being reaped: a signal victory for Communism, because of our ineptitude in foreign affairs. GEORGE S. WOOD JR. Alexandria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 4, 1960 | 7/4/1960 | See Source »

...Author Evelyn Waugh, established himself an heir to his father's literary precocity by announcing that his first novel will be published in September. Theme: "Terrible mother-son hatred." Title: The Foxglove Saga. "I didn't want to call it something disgustingly contemporary like Rushing Nowhere or Rotten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 4, 1960 | 7/4/1960 | See Source »

...last remaining family possession, a dilapidated theater. They decided to sell their house instead and live in the theater, managed to put together a cumbersome stage melodrama called Man from Shensi, which inexplicably became a hit. One reason: the first night, the hero leaped into the air, fell through rotten floor boards. The audience laughed so hard that the brothers made the crash part of the play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: What Makes Run Run Run? | 5/30/1960 | See Source »

...rolling strong in ten countries: "Local governments put up the hospitals and we are simply the people who run them." Asked about recent criticism that he is a publicity seeker, Dr. Tom quoted from "an old Chinese proverb": "When one lift head above crowd, bound to receive rotten fruit." Then Tom Dooley entered a Manhattan hospital to continue his own personal fight against disease, got a complete checkup on his progress since removal of a chest cancer last summer. His prognosis will be reported to him soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, may 23, 1960 | 5/23/1960 | See Source »

...raps. President Eisenhower, cried the government-owned Radio Mambi, was an "aged golf player" who needed a nurse to "wipe away the slobber that drools from his lips." But the U.S. was in good company. Chile's President Jorge Alessandri's democracy has been called "rotten," he himself "a servile satellite of the United States." Argentina's President Arturo Frondizi, said another Mambi broadcast, was "pro-imperialist, a man who rules his country with murderous bayonets," and Mexico's Adolfo López Mateos was the "betrayer of the Mexican Revolution." Colombia's Alberto Lleras...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Rally Round the Maypole | 5/9/1960 | See Source »

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