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...telephone number of a boy who has taken his fancy. The boy (Barry Justice) is Antonescu's illegitimate son, and the father is dangling him as pervert bait to land a merger that may save his Depression-gored financial empire. While waiting for this rococo rotter to tot up his accounts with a final bullet, idle-minded theater partygoers may wonder, in days to come, whether this playscript was found in Terence Rattigan's typewriter or his wastebasket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Rococo Rotter | 11/22/1963 | See Source »

...Macy executive (Janis Paige) has been burned on the matrimonial altar and has sworn off men. Her next-door neighbor is an ex-marine (Craig Stevens) who has sworn off women in favor of his true love, the law. Fortunately, Divorcee Paige has a little daughter, an agnostic city tot who does not believe in Santa Claus. Lawyer Stevens undertakes to cure her unbelief. Does anyone hear those jingle bells turning into wedding bells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: It Shouldn't Happen To Santa Claus | 10/11/1963 | See Source »

...grass tickling his legs, the fun-crunch of dry leaves, the scent of pine needles, the zigzag flight of a butterfly. Suddenly, during an unguarded moment, Peter dashed off, bent on exploration and discovery. By the time his brother noticed and began searching for him, the tiny tot was beyond recall, happily lost in the thickets and forest leading to the death strip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iron Curtain: A Cold War Fairy Tale | 9/6/1963 | See Source »

Married. Brenda Lee (real name: Brenda Mae Tarpley), 18, tot-sized teen singer whose belting, bluesy voice makes her sound twice her age; and Charles Ronald Shacklett, 18, son of a Nashville city councilman; in Nashville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 3, 1963 | 5/3/1963 | See Source »

...wiser. It occurred to him that his speech still lacked color. How smashing it would be to spice it up with occasional quotations, foreign phrases, and literary allusions. When his parents observed that he had stopped going to church on Sundays he quipped, hardly to their amusement, "Gott ist tot, you know." When one of his roommates complained that Herbert badly needed a haircut, he answered gravely "De gustibus..." and left it to his listener to supply the ending. And when his other roommate asked to borrow ten dollars for a date, Herbert came back with "Neither a borrower...

Author: By Josiah. LEE Auspitz, | Title: The Education of Herbert | 1/11/1963 | See Source »

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