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At TIME, Keogh took to national politics with the same native savvy that he showed for Midwest politics. But he ranged farther afield, into law, military and foreign affairs. Up to now, he has written 18 cover stories. His first was on Adlai Ste venson (TIME, Jan. 28, 1952). Among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publisher's Letter, Nov. 14, 1955 | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

GET into politics. You owe it to your community and to your country. in a world where politics is increasingly determinant. Traditionally, our businessmen have avoided and even scorned close participation in political life. They have adopted political attitudes from the viewpoint of their narrow business interests, such as on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. BUSINESSMEN SHOULD GO INTO POLITICS | 9/12/1955 | See Source »

NOT HONOUR MORE, by Joyce Cary (309 pp.; Harper; $3.50), winds up a trilogy, kills off three of its main charac ters and, as usual, leaves the readers of British Novelist Gary oddly moved and vaguely irritated. In Volume I, Prisoner of Grace, Heroine Nina Latter told her story - that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Jun. 6, 1955 | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

Violent Saturday (20th Century-Fox) is a big, rough, savvy sort of pell-meller-perhaps the best thing of its crude kind that Hollywood has offered in 1955. The idea of the picture, trenchantly written by Sydney Boehm and slickly directed by Richard Fleischer, is as simple and as nerve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, may 16, 1955 | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

The Met is an old and barely adequate house. What it lacks in convenience it must make up with backstage savvy, proudly displayed by a crew of 152 electricians, carpenters ("grips"), prop men, et al. Best place from which to watch them at work is 44 feet above the stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Backstage at the Met | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

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