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"Few men are life-size," Whistler once said-and fewer still combine the gall, gallantry and genius with which Whistler fashioned a larger-than-life legend. Poet and Critic Horace (Amy Lowell) Gregory skirts the legend, feeling that many of the stories are in their anecdotage. He sacrifices color for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Scorpions & Butterflies | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

There is probably no way to prove that the people who like J.B. are the same ones who read Time Magazine every week, laugh at all of Schlesinger's jokes, find themselves existentially challenged by Reverend But-trick's sermons, own stacks of Rodgers and Hammerstein records, and think James...

Author: By John E. Mcnees, | Title: MacLeish's 'J. B.': A Review of Reviews | 11/19/1959 | See Source »

Britain wiped out import quotas on all but a handful of U.S. goods that have been barred or restricted for 20 years. Its gesture is expected to whet demand for American-style cocktail dresses and printed skirts, other readymade clothing of new, washable fabrics that are still high-priced in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Best of Stimulants | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

This year the Times decided it had had enough: it ran a story about this fall's fashions long before the press-week release date. Pink with rage, the Couture Group sent "pledge cards" to editors, asking them to observe the release rules. When the Times refused to sign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: It's Ridiculous' | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

The Anatomy of Love (Lux Film Cines; Kassler), an Italian film that tells five short stories, is at its best in the two that star Vittorio De Sica: as a count who has lost everything but his nobility ("I'd decided not to outlive my youth no matter how...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Italian Import | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

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