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...Second only to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England, a distinction established by Pope Innocent VI in the 14th century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Revolt Against Christianity | 6/13/1960 | See Source »

...doll play, telling of a blind man and his wife who commit suicide, and of a goddess who restores them to life, scores chiefly through details and through Utaemon VI's acting as the woman. To a Westerner, the snail-paced story seems more often theatrically trite than poetically touching. On the other hand, the final play-telling of a rich provincial who falls in love with a courtesan and tries, with tragic consequences, to buy her out of her brothel-has not only pictorial charm but genuine story and character interest. Here Grand Kabuki conveys very well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Show in Manhattan, Jun. 13, 1960 | 6/13/1960 | See Source »

Teleknight? If he keeps it up, Richard Dimbleby may well become what many British show people hope he will be: the first knight of television. He has lent his faultless, icky-wicket comments to nearly every royal occasion since World War II, including the funeral of King George VI, the wedding and the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. A merry, good-tempered pro, he was the BBC's first war correspondent, even broadcast from a Royal Air Force bomber on a raid over Berlin. In 1945, he was arrested in Berlin by suspicious Russian soldiers, won his freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: The Flight of the Dimbleby | 5/16/1960 | See Source »

...Some of the upper belt's periodic fluctuations can be charged to storms on the sun, which usually last a matter of days. But Drs. Alan Rosen, T. A. Farley and C. P. Sonett of Space Technology Laboratories, Los Angeles, analyzed radioed reports from U.S. satellite Explorer VI, found that at 30,000 miles above the earth the intensity of the radiation some times increased a hundredfold in a few seconds, then dropped back almost as swiftly. They offered no explanation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Space & Bugs | 1/25/1960 | See Source »

...that her fiance might have died during the blast (he did); the curiosity of the men in Fighter Command Operations Room as they plot the erratic flight up the North Sea coast of a lone Messerschmitt bearing Deputy Fuehrer Rudolf Hess on his mad "peace mission" to King George VI. Such touches have the gritty reality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Their Finest Hours | 1/11/1960 | See Source »

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