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...Broadway approaches the May 1 cutoff of eligibility for its Tony Awards, serious attention is being given to suspending the musical categories. The only obvious alternative is to nominate a string of flops. Of the seven musicals that have made it to Broadway so far this season, four closed after runs of three weeks or less; last week's ingratiating revival of a 1959 hit, Take Me Along, folded the day after it opened. The survivors are the umpteenth revival of The King and I and two April entries, both pummeled by reviewers: Leader of the Pack, a rock nostalgia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Where Are the Hit Musicals? | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...late brother John took over the flagship Des Moines Register, they began to buy radio stations in the 1930s. In 1937 the Cowleses launched a new picture magazine two months after the debut of LIFE, and Look, too, quickly became a financial success. He followed up, however, with a string of magazine failures. In 1971, battered by advertising losses to TV, Look went under. With the family newspaper chain also in long decline, even the Register was sold two weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 22, 1985 | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...psychological speculation about Reagan in these past days than ever before, there is no way to chart the future. In hindsight it appears that John Kennedy's persistent back troubles sometimes plunged him into dark moods that were reflected in his grim assessments of Soviet power. Eisenhower's string of illnesses surely drained him of the vitality so essential in the presidency to press on against critics and adversaries. Many of the modern problems of race, environment and cities began to emerge during his tenure, and he did not pay full attention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Acting the Actor | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...majority owner of the N.A.S.L.'s San Jose Earthquakes, is keeping his club together and hopes that a new league will start up. Explains Earthquakes Executive Fred Guzman: "It's a civic matter, like popping for a modern art museum. I mean, what's the satisfaction of owning a string of coin-operated Laundromats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Called Strike Looms | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

Last spring postal authorities traced the Connecticut credit card purchase and a string of other fraudulent transactions to a post-office box in South Plainfield, N. J. Someone was using the box to take delivery of stereo and radar-detection equipment ordered through a computerized mail-order catalog. The trail led to a young New Jersey enthusiast who used the alias "New Jersey Hack Sack" and communicated regularly with other computer owners over a loosely organized network of electronic bulletin boards. A computer search of the contents of those boards by Detective George Green and Patrolman Michael Grennier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: The Great Satellite Caper | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

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