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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sweet Smell of Success, the searing analysis of a power-mad and incestuous newspaper columnist and a toadying, conscienceless press agent, will be at the UT next Wednesday through Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Also Recommended... | 8/14/1957 | See Source »

...Navy has authorized one nuclear missile cruiser (the U.S.S. Long Beach). A nuclear carrier is in the works, and five more are contemplated. Nuclear destroyers will be difficult because their reactors will have to be lighter than any known today, but their ultimate success is considered sure. They will stay at sea indefinitely, while conventional types must be refueled every week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Atom Goes to Sea | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

Hard Drinks. Before his current success, North Carolina-born Soupy "scuffed around from one radio and nightclub job to another. I kept quitting because of illness. They got sick of me." Finally he came to roost at Detroit's WXYZ, where two years ago he was the summer network replacement for Kukla, Fran and Ollie, clobbering its rating in several cities. Outside an 18-hour workday at the studio, Soupy lives quietly in flossy Grosse Pointe with his attractive ex-vocalist wife Barbara, their two children, three and five, and a 3,000-disk record collection. There, instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Soupy's On | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

Soulless Big Business, one of TV's favorite whipping boys, took another drubbing last week on Kraft TV Theater. In a playlet called Success, Actor Kent Smith limned a clean, incisive portrait of an able executive who proves, if nothing else, that the boss is not always right. With uncommon cunning, Executive Smith is squeezed out of the big corporative setup and eased into the humiliating role of a shoe salesman at I. Miller. In injured tones, his social-minded wife (played by Andy Hardy's old valentine, Ann Rutherford) reminds him: "We haven't even paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

Sweet Smell of Success. A whiff of the rat-tat-tattle machinations of a poison-penned Broadway columnist and his hatchetman; with Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Aug. 12, 1957 | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

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