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...nuclear bomb that fell in Florence, S.C. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) had produced only a low-order explosion in the U.S., but it brought megaton repercussions in Britain. The Labor press broke into "we-told-you-so" editorials. Even the Conservative Daily Sketch had a suggestion about the H-bomb: "Keep it. But keep it on the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN EUROPE: The Big Binge | 3/24/1958 | See Source »

...mistress becomes pregnant, James resolves to divorce Annette, but face to face with the supine, trusting invalid, he holds his tongue. The memorable story evokes a morbid doll's house in which death is pink with black edges, like some outrageous hybrid flower. Also outstanding: the thumbnail sketch of the prim, man-hating aunt, who all but says out loud that a marriage in which sex is prohibited by doctor's orders is a noncon-summation devoutly to be wished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Made in Heaven? | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

...world's tallest (570 ft.) stone monument, it was copied from a sketch in which Entrepreneur Jones combined his two favorite memorials: the Lincoln and Washington monuments in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Push for the Post | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

...head." Somehow, on a Havana Sunday morning. Wardrobe's Consuelo Gana managed to produce a selection of a dozen more bathing suits to the measure of East Cupcake. And when the show's Louis (Gordon Hathaway) Nye lacked a sharpie's tie for a gambling sketch, she found one in the lobby around a guest's neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: High Wind in Havana | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

...bottle of rum was produced to fuel four divers who would splash into the cold pool behind Mamie's number. Director Dwight Hemion insisted that Comic Tom Poston carry three spare sets of dice for his crapshooting sketch with Costello. Mamie asked for an "idiot card" to cue her at the pool, and, added Executive Producer Jules Green, "make sure that the water is deep enough where she's supposed to dive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: High Wind in Havana | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

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