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The curtain-raising Gamblers is a tricky little farce, exhibiting a subtle brand of card sharps who operate in ever-widening circles of duplicity. Apart from their penchant for peculation, Gogol's characters are not a very lively bunch, so it is all to the good that director William Kelley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Gamblers and The Marriage | 5/2/1958 | See Source »

Chicago Paper Manufacturer Paul Butler surrendered 230 of his 3,800 acres for the Northern Illinois Toll Highway, including fox-hunting runs and part of one of his eleven polo fields. He got $2,000,000, considered that hardly adequate for a stretch of choice land. In the Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGHWAYS: The Great Uprooting | 3/24/1958 | See Source »

Today Wall Street is looking to a brighter future. Experts expect that trading will be slow for the rest of the year, that stocks will seesaw in a narrow range. The big test of whether the market has seen its low will come in the next six weeks, when companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: The Morning After | 3/24/1958 | See Source »

Good Doer. No sooner had the ten-horse field settled into its stride at Santa Anita last week than Silky's strongest boosters began to worry about his form. Their favorite was only 28 lengths behind the leaders-for him that was hot pursuit. Maybe he was burning himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Out of Bunyan by Runyon | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

Three Years Running. As winter racing came alive with the big-stakes races that point the way north toward the Derby, the Preakness and the Belmont, Willie Hartack began booting his way into the winner's circle with familiar regularity. Though he got off to an atrocious 1958 start (27...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bully & the Beasts | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

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