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...know, you naughty boy, I've never kippled." The double-entendre gave McGill his most successful card, good for a staggering 6,000,000 copies, but now out of print. A shriveled shrimp of a man with a huge mustache, naked but for a small towel, stands before a doctor, who tells him: "Sorry, but we will have to take it off. It's sapping your strength." Another pictured a fat. bulging female kneeling on her bed and praying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: The Sancho Panza View | 10/26/1962 | See Source »

...question, as Rod Serling asked it in his famous television play and as he asks it again in this capable cinema adaptation, is sure to touch the spectator's heart. Unhappily, the answer to the question hits the customer in the kisser like a supersaturated crying towel. But to some extent the performances make up for the plot. Gleason has the loud uncertain blare of a tinhorn who can't face the music. Julie Harris, as a U.S. Employment Service counselor, suggests with diffident charm that the U.S.E.S. of adversity can sometimes be sweet. And Quinn, though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Man Is Like a Cigarette | 10/19/1962 | See Source »

...allows lovemaking to advance beyond a kiss, he loses sight of good taste entirely. Alcon's buxom nurse bursts in on her patient while he is drying himself after a shower. She grabs him, engulfs him with heavy snorts and slavering kisses, and finally pulls away the bath towel. Before the camera fades out, we are treated to a good, long vis-a-vis with Alcon's rear...

Author: By Raymond A. Sokolov jr., | Title: Summerskin | 10/18/1962 | See Source »

...Martin Luther King so far back in jail that "they'll have to shoot peas to feed him." To cheers of approval, Griffin castigates "superliberals and one-worlders" who threaten to "trample" Georgia. He praises "our sister states in the South" for their refusal to throw m "the towel of surrender" by integrating their schools, paints a lurid picture of integration in Washington, where "it was necessary to station policemen in the halls and corridors of their public schools, and even this action did not prevent rape, beatings and muggings." Although Sanders himself is a segregationist, Griffin calls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Politics: Integrity Pitch | 8/24/1962 | See Source »

...Continental Air Lines Boeing 707 was blown up by dynamite in mid-air near the Iowa-Missouri border last May 22 (45 dead). Said CAB: "All the evidence leads logically to the conclusion that a dynamite device was placed in the used-towel bin of the right rear lavatory with the express intent to destroy the aircraft. "The Federal Bureau of Investigation reported that before the flight, Victim Thomas G. Doty, 34, who faced prosecution for armed robbery, bought some dynamite and $275,000 worth of life insurance payable to his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aviation: Diversity in Death | 8/10/1962 | See Source »

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