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While these older folk (well played by Maureen Stapleton, Sig Arno, Sanford Meisner) hold Behrman's loose-leaf memory book together, younger ones are falling in love and inquiring of life. Chief of these is Willie (Eli Wallach), an unstable college student who goes in for long words and large thoughts, is forever losing himself trying to find himself, unavailingly loves one girl, is unavailingly loved by another. For all his lostness, he seems an essentially comic type till suddenly-out of Winesburg, Ohio more than Worcester, Mass.-he kills himself. Earlier, Behrman nowhere sounds the few right notes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays on Broadway, Dec. 22, 1958 | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

...radio-TV copy in 1954. Adman Gribbin, who lives in Greenwich, Conn, and has a farm in Massachusetts, is tall (6 ft. 1 in.), quick-witted and relaxed ("My biggest problem is keeping the sheep fenced in on my farm"); he is slated to be top man when Sig Larmon, now two years over Y. & R.'s usual retirement age, steps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Changes of the Week, Nov. 3, 1958 | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

State took the protest "under advisement" and left it there. But CBS last week was told by the Russians that its Moscow bureau had become "unnecessary." CBS Moscow Correspondent Paul Niven got two weeks notice to clear out. Lamented CBS Vice President (in charge of news) Sig Nickelson: "The injury to CBS News is less than the injury to the American public, because this action destroys one more channel in the flow of firsthand information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Plot to Kill CBS | 10/20/1958 | See Source »

...newsmen upon previously unchristened lakes. Picked for immortality among the state's 10,000 or more lakes: the New York Times's Pulitzer Prizewinning Harrison E. (for Evans) Salisbury; Look's Editorial Director Daniel D. (for Danforth) Mich; Humorist (Rally Round the Flag, Boys!) Max Shulman; Sig Mickelson, CBS's vice president in charge of news; Reader's Digest Editor (and founder) DeWitt Wallace; and CBS's chief Washington correspondent, North Dakota-born A.(for Arnold) Eric Sevareid, onetime reporter for the Minneapolis Journal and Minneapolis Star. The newsman-named lakes will keep cartographic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Land of Bylined Waters | 2/17/1958 | See Source »

...SIG. GROSSMANN Rio de Janeiro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 27, 1958 | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

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