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Viewers who saw last week's production of Town could see little similarity between its story and the celebrated murder of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old Chicago Negro beaten and shot to death in Mississippi after he unwarily whistled at a white storekeeper's wife (TIME, Oct. 3 and Nov. 21, 1955). Yet Town began, through CBS's courageous suggestion to Serling, as a thinly veiled dramatization of the Till case. A précis of Serling's first effort was rejected by all but one of the sponsors; they would not lend their brand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Tale of a Script | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

When the weary Senate adjourned at week's end after three days of morning-till-night debate, the Republicans still had dozens of amendment grenades to hurl. The bill's prospects in the labor-weary House: doubtful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Shattered Peace | 6/23/1958 | See Source »

Gurgled Defiance. No diver till he took the job. Bridges has quickly become the world's best-known underwater actor, picks up tidy extra income on his merchandising tie-in with a rubber company that makes "Mike Nelson" flippers, masks, snorkels and rubber boats. His 52 sponsors across the U.S. are elated with Sea Hunt's showing, will doubtless keep Bridges going off the deep end next year. He will continue to expose marine-insurance frauds, nab below-surface smugglers of aliens, rescue other hapless souls trapped in the deep, cut short careers of skindiving robbers who prey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Off the Deep End | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

...gotta go and never stop going till...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Disorganization Man | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

Jack Barnaby's wait 'till next year will not be an unpleasant...

Author: By Walter L. Goldfrank, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

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