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The Jack Paar Program (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Guests: Oscar Levant, the Smothers Brothers, Comedian Jackie Mason. Repeat.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jul. 26, 1963 | 7/26/1963 | See Source »

The dedicated Sunday golfer is a testament to hope. He falls over backward on the tee because Gary Player does. He cuts his ball nearly in half, trying to make it back up on the green just like Arnold Palmer. He crouches like Jack Nicklaus and peers curiously into the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Croquet on the Green | 2/1/1963 | See Source »

''This is one of the great advantages of the Times: you get so much more to throw away. It is impenetrable but indispensable. Other papers cover the news and the Times smothers it, but the reader benefits. People are always dying in the Times who don't...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Striking an Old Lady | 1/4/1963 | See Source »

Brant can still whack out a crackling paragraph in the style of his old newspaper days. But in his sixth volume, as in the previous five, he smothers this talent by his pack-rat compulsion to drag in everything pertaining to Madison and his times, no matter how deadening it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mr. Madison's War | 11/3/1961 | See Source »

Electro (by Sophocles) has one of those scenes of naked emotional intensity that have been missing on the stage since Olivier gave his howl of self-recognition as Oedipus. It comes when Electra, played by Aspassia Papathanassiou, sees the urn that supposedly contains the ashes of her brother Orestes. She...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Heroes, Gods & Women | 9/29/1961 | See Source »

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