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By midnight it is plain that the show is a hit. A cameraman smothers a laugh and says, "Jack's flying. He'll be home now." Henny Youngman, a charter member of the Lindy comedians Jack so often criticizes, has dropped in to watch-as many show business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Late-Night Affair | 8/18/1958 | See Source »

Do the customers get their money's worth? It depends on what they are paying for. Gigi is dressed to kill, but if all the French finery impresses the customers, it also smothers the story. Worse still, the physical exuberance of the production flusters the pensive sensuality of Colette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 19, 1958 | 5/19/1958 | See Source »

Spotting a dandy opportunity to reacquaint Roman readers with an old friend and get in a gratuitous whack at the U.S. at the same time, Italy's conservative Il Tempo paid a call on top-ranking poet and philosophical Wild Man Ezra Pound at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 9, 1957 | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

Last week's $166 million bond-signing marathon, to finance the first 631,000-kw. unit at Priest Rapids, climaxed a four-year tug-of-war over the quiet Columbia River valley. In 1950 Congress authorized 100% federal financing, for Priest Rapids, as recommended by the Army Corps of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Priest Rapids Pact | 7/9/1956 | See Source »

In his headlong pride, Captain Michales, singlehanded, routs a band of Turkish agas (military overlords) from their favorite coffeehouse. For this scandal, a handsome, virile Turk named Nuri Bey takes revenge by killing Captain Michales' brother. But the brother, with the last dying thrust of his dagger, emasculates Nuri...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fate of a Hero | 1/16/1956 | See Source »

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