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...Small Hours (by George S. Kaufman & Leueen MacGrath; produced by Max Gordon) is 26 scenes worth of life among big-shot Manhattan intellectuals. It displays them at sleek dinner parties, in cabs and sport cars, in offices and boudoirs, at smart restaurants and resorts. It shows them two-timing and double-crossing, ladling out flattery, dishing up scandal. It portrays in particular the Mitchell family-a brilliant, middle-aged publisher (Paul McGrath), his selfish daughter, his muddled son, and his wife Laura (Dorothy Stickney), who is clumsy and crushed in a world at once beyond and beneath her. But Laura...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Feb. 26, 1951 | 2/26/1951 | See Source »

With Oliver Smith sets, Miles White costumes and some superior showgirls, Bless You All is sleek and satiny to the eye. But if that adds to the charm, it accentuates the mediocrity: it denies Bless You All the licensed bonhomie and sloppiness of an intimate revue. Even Negro Singer Pearl Bailey's enormous natural charm is put in double jeopardy by her wearing a flossy evening dress while struggling with flat material...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Revue In Manhattan, Dec. 25, 1950 | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

Last week Hives put his hand to another new project. He reopened Rolls's huge Glasgow plant to mass-produce the new Avon jet engine (7,500-lb. thrust), successor to the Derwent and Nene (TIME, Oct. 16). The engines made there will go into the sleek Canberra twin-engine bomber, now being built in England for the R.A.F. and a bright possibility for the U.S. Air Force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMAMENTS: Lord Mechanic | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

When it came to hurling a sleek, eight-engined bomber halfway around the world, nobody could beat the Ai,r Force. Knocking out a couple of machine-gun nests on a scrubby Korean hillside was something else again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: TAG Has Its Day | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

Bellwether's Topknot. For the short, chopped, overly sleek follower-or victim-of the short-haircut style, the new style was a shock. Even if she moved into a hothouse and buried herself in Vigoro, she couldn't grow a chignon of her own in time to be in style. By no coincidence, the hair stylists were ready with just what the lady roundheads needed: the artificial chignon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Chignon or Chihuahua | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

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