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The danger for a play like this in the theater is that it will be all wings and no feet. But John Gielgud's staging is as precise in detail as it is ebullient in effect; and a finely blended English cast knows how to rumble the lines or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Nov. 20, 1950 | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

Underlings whom the boss drafted for riding and polo suffered many a bruise and fracture, but kept their loyalty intact. As time went on, he replaced the polo casualties with better poloists, to whom he gave studio jobs. Though the team was at first sneered at as the only one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: One-Man Studio | 6/12/1950 | See Source »

By last week, Amy Mallard was probably as unpopular in Toombs County, Ga. as her husband Robert ("Big Duck") Mallard had been before he was lynched. The lynching had caused a lot of trouble and almost everyone thought that was Amy's fault. Big Duck had been a "real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Justice In Toombs County | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

For a while Joe was an ardent proselytizer for the Newspaper Guild, until he decided that Communists had infiltrated the union. Also, as he began to gain a reputation as a long-winded but conscientious political writer, he began to feel uppity about being lumped with clerks, office boys and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: On Whose Side, the Angels? | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

At 51, Ed Kobak is an unpressed little man with a face that might have been clipped from any old banquet photograph -shy, inexact grin, blurred eyes, tired grey hair. Actually, he is a sensationally successful huckster, known far & wide among radiomen as The Great Salesman. He loves Donald Duck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Great Salesman | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

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