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Perhaps no one knows more about nursery-rhyme origins than a husband-and-wife team of Britons named Iona and Peter Opie. In The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (TIME, Sept. 24, 1951), they brought together more than 500 of the rhymes and songs that have been the unwitting introduction...
Penning a New York Times piece to help mark the celebration of Mozart Year, famed Pianist Rudolf Serkin, 52, gave readers an unwitting hint of when old age sets in for child prodigies: "Love and understanding for Mozart came rather late in my life as a musician. Mozart's...
Needless to say, the "stoolie" role is a disgusting one, and Tony Curtis was a perfect choice. George Nader plays the policemean and also does a good job. In fact, the whole cast, including the countless unwitting Bostonians, does the best it can; its only guilt is that of association...
ONLY FADE AWAY, by Bruce Marshall (303 pp.; Houghton Mifflin; $3.50), shows how an Episcopal Scotsman can hopscotch his engaging way through a comic novel as if he were the hero of a minor Greek tragedy. The hero is Strang Nairne Methuen. As a young lieutenant, he is full of...
Moral or Mental. Far from being biased, said Ervin, he "gave Senator McCarthy the benefit of all doubts, both reasonable and unreasonable." Then Ervin moved to another subject: the McCarthy speech (released to the press but never delivered on the Senate floor) calling the Watkins committee the "unwitting handmaiden" of...