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...William Saroyan's Time of Your Life shocked many with its unstructured style when it debuted in the fall of 1939. The play still comes as a surprise today even though its hard realism may seem time when compared to more recent plays. Saroyan shows us a depressing series of life slices all in the setting of a West Coast bar. Throughout the play he has us jump from pinball players to phone callers to despondent bar stoolies. Miraculously he brings all of them together at the play's conclusion...
After a hard day at the job, some folks like to slip into something comfortable and just clown around for a while. Take Actor Walter Matthau, who teamed up with Son Charles, 13, and Stepdaughter Lucy Saroyan, 29 (daughter of Writer William Saroyan), for opening night of the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Los Angeles. While Singer Tony Orlando played ringmaster, Actors Bob Newhart, Robert Mitchum, Sally Struthers and other off-duty stars paraded into center ring on elephants, all to raise money for Project Hope. "Circus performers are without guile, thoroughly professional," said Matthau after the annual...
...neatly into two parts that might be subtitled "Spar and Tell." The first act is a land of sexual scrimmage with earthy roughhousing on Gert's part and some wild and woozy comic foolery on Harry's. The tone is that of a mating between Steinbeck and Saroyan...
This was not the first time that TIME masthead names have appeared in a literary context. In William Saroyan's comedy Love's Old Sweet Song, a door-to-door magazine salesman recites our 1940 roster of editors and researchers as part of a TIME subscription sales pitch to his potential customers - whose response is somewhat less than enthusiastic. Novelist P.G. Wodehouse proved to be a masthead reader too. In the 1955 Christmas issue of Punch, he published a poetic catalogue of our editorial staffers, including then-Managing Editor Roy Alexander: "How very much I would enjoy...
...wife, Martha Foley, mimeographed 75 copies of an anthology of short stories written by themselves and friends. The issue drew immediate critical approval. With Burnett as editor and later his second wife, Hallie, as assistant, Story survived 40 years and was first to publish the short stories of William Saroyan, Norman Mailer and Truman Capote...