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...comedy is grounded in an innocence as perfect as a baby's-or a saint's. Not since the late Harry Langdon of the silent days has the screen shown a comedian who, caught tiptoeing past the Big Top in broad daylight with a stolen elephant in tow, could throw up his hands and say with almost mystical fervor: "What elephant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Absolutely Everything | 12/21/1962 | See Source »

...German emplacement after another. Heroism in the hills helped. Under heavy fire, an American sergeant maneuvered his antitank gun to the top of a ridge, demolished six tanks in half an hour. A British major given up for lost behind enemy lines reappeared with an enemy halftrack in tow, plus an 88-mm. gun and a dozen prisoners. A fiery British commando lieutenant colonel named Jack Churchill,* waving a sword in one hand, took 30 prisoners singlehanded. When an admiring if puzzled superior asked why the sword, Churchill replied: "In my opinion, any officer who goes into action without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nine-Day Nightmare | 11/9/1962 | See Source »

...following a brief stint on a cruiser in the Pacific, he shipped to Pensacola for full flight training. After that, he flew catapult-launched seaplanes from the decks of cruisers in the Atlantic Fleet, suffered his first "and only significant" crash: during aerial gunnery practice one day, a tow target got wrapped around Anderson's propeller; the plane came down flat on its back onto a Virginia beach. Anderson crawled out uninjured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE CNO: Unfaltering Competence & an Uncommon Flair | 11/2/1962 | See Source »

...great man. He's not a coward. He's not afraid of us, and we're not afraid of him." - Harlem's Democratic Representative Adam Clayton Powell Jr., 53, was in Europe ostensibly to study equality of opportunity for Continental women. He had in tow a couple of shapely technical advisers: Conine Huff, a former Miss U.S.A. contestant (36-24-36) and a $5,014 receptionist in his office, and Mrs. Tamara J. Wall, a divorcee, who is a $9,000 staffer on his House Education and Labor Committee. In Paris, Powell established his research headquarters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americans Abroad: On the Road | 9/14/1962 | See Source »

...knew about fascism through books and movies, And here I saw it in action. Fascism stood up in my face smelling of whisky .. . Fascism was noisily chewing gum. It was sniveling covered with pimples and tow-haired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communists: The Uninvited Guests | 8/10/1962 | See Source »

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