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Mr. Right, by Charles Osborne, an account of a free trip to Hollywood won by two man-hungry uglies, also reads smoothly. But in the Lampoon's one non-movie story. Fish Old of Water by Arlen, it is easy to see why the 'Poon so often draws yawns instead...

Author: By Michael Maccoby, | Title: The Lampoon | 4/16/1952 | See Source »

It shows the 17-year-old, 18th-century poet Thomas Chatterton winning from Death-in the moment of suicide-a chance to live again, so long as he keeps his past existence secret. Projected into the 20th century, he becomes the lover of a passionate, high-strung, middle-aged sophisticate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Play in Manhattan, Feb. 4, 1952 | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

They were as different as two men could be. William Lloyd Garrison was the son of a hard-drinking sailor, Wendell Phillips the son of a rich Boston lawyer. Garrison had picked up scraps of knowledge as a printer's devil, Phillips had been a Harvard dandy. Garrison wore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: American Agitators | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

There is nothing subtle in "Monsieur Vincent." Saints, one may assume, are not subtle people, and the producers fortunately did not succumb to a temptation to modernize or sophisticate this story of the good man in a sorrowful world. They filmed the saint's life straight-forwardly, and that, together...

Author: By David E. Lilienthal jr., | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/23/1949 | See Source »

No sophisticate, he shows signs of becoming a big-city hypochondriac, although he denies it. His dressing table is littered with a weird assortment of pills, salves, balms and medicines with which he experiments constantly. But the big-city preoccupation with racial problems is not in his key. He says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Louis the First | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

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