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...cakes and ale in June nor even sausages and stout. There is supposed to be pathos, too, in the spectacle of poor, hard-working Juno Boyle slaving away to support her husband, a strutting "paycock" who spends his days carousing with his crony in the pub. But there isn't. The story of Juno's daughter, Mary, who impregnates and then deserts her, raises the possibility that O'Casey is the arrantest disher-up of unrefurbished cliche who ever presumed to deal in "serious" drama. Only in the account of Juno's son, Johnny, the unwilling informer, do O'Casey...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Juno | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

...next fiscal year (June 30, 1960), the U.S. budget is in fact in balance, it will be a political miracle. Vice President Richard Nixon is among Republicans who fear that stout dedication to a balanced budget may type Republicans as rearguardists just when liberals are winning elections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Black-Ink Budget | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

When Carleton College began to instruct the young of Northfield, Minn, in 1867, its faculty consisted wholly of a stout-souled Dartmouth graduate named Horace Goodhue Jr., who taught 14 classes a day. Nine years later and still not overstaffed, the college lost a good man when Treasurer Joseph Heywood tried to prevent an unauthorized withdrawal from the bank he served as cashier-and was gunned down by Jesse James's boys. If the Congregational college's endowment vanished with the Missouri badman, it did not weigh heavily in his saddlebags; at any rate, Carleton-named first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Penguins & Scholars | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

...portrait of Mexico's President Adolfo López Mateos, TIME turned to one of Mexico's leading artists, Rufino Tamayo. A stout antiCommunist, Tamayo has long been frozen out of the bread-and-butter work of decorating the public buildings of his native land by the Communist clique of muralists headed by David Siqueiros and the late Diego Rivera. As a result, he leads the life of a wandering expatriate, painted this week's cover in Paris. He recently finished another Paris commission-a mural depicting Prometheus bringing heavenly fire to men, in the newly opened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 8, 1958 | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

...FOUR TO GO, by Rex Stout (Viking; $2.95), is "compact and full of meat . . . The use of the mind is. as always, pre-eminent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crisis in Mysteries | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

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