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...reckon with that great spoiler of dreams, the French National Assembly. Last week the Assembly debated the bold plan for a Common Market (TIME, Jan. 28) that would give six Western European nations a tariff-free trading area nearly as big as the U.S. Premier Guy Mollet, so optimis tic at first, was shaken and depressed. Former Premier Pierre Mendès-France, playing shrewdly on France's century-old fear of German domination, had belabored the proposal in language and innuendo all but identical to that used by the Communist orators. Worse yet. four other former Premiers-Edgar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN EUROPE: Within Our Grasp | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

...composer, Floyd has a Verdian flair for extracting the last drops of dramatic juice from many of his scenes. In the revival meeting, Susannah's dramatic pin nacle, the congregation sings a realis tic back-country hymn while Evangelist Blitch (Bass-Baritone Norman Treigle) rants in the foreground, and the music gradually transmutes and builds to shat tering climax. On the other hand Composer Floyd is sometimes seduced from the true path by his own melodies, nota bly when he sets Susannah (Soprano Phyllis Curtin) to singing the intermina ble verses of a pretty, folk-song-like lament just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Discovery in Manhattan | 10/8/1956 | See Source »

...company eagerly plunged into commercialism to raise the rest. Singers Jeanne Beauvais, Norman Myrvik, Francis Barnard and Musical Director Lucille Burnham gave all the concerts they could. Stage Manager Beth Leibowitz made and sold ceramics, while Company Manager Richard Flusser hopefully entered a TV quiz show named Tic Tac Dough (he won a watch, but no dough). By last month they were so nearly solvent that they embarked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Shoestring Opera | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

...rolled out Tic Tac Dough this summer (Mon.-Fri. 12 noon) with Veteran Cashier Jack Barry maneuvering players "horizontally, diagonally or vertically" in the old crisscross game of ticktacktoe. Prize per game: $100. But, adds the network, a winner "may increase his winnings indefinitely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Big Money | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

...Tic Tac Dough (Mon.-Fri. 12 p.m., NBC). A new audience-participation show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Jul. 30, 1956 | 7/30/1956 | See Source »

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