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...than ten days before trial time, he goes on a solo search for the missing gun and the story behind it. Running down false leads and blind alleys, Janssen caroms off a series of star suspects, including Lillian Gish as a septuagenarian lapdog lover, Eleanor Parker as a merry widow whose idea of mourning is martinis with black olives, and George Grizzard as a womanizing airline pilot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Copy Cop | 6/9/1967 | See Source »

...custom stamps and certificates by experts, all addressed to Dallas. Lessard has been acting as "private secretary" to a dandy named Fernand Legros, who last March in Paris sent a photo of a painting supposedly by Andre Derain to an auction house, only to have the painter's widow question its authenticity. Two Dufys and a Vlaminck offered by Legros to the house were handed over to police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: Meadows' Luck | 5/19/1967 | See Source »

Ernest Hemingway is becoming the publishing business' posthumous answer to cottage industry. Three years after his suicide, A Moveable Feast arrived, literary leftovers served up by his widow, Mary. Now, after another three years, comes this 77-piece assembly of Papa's journalism, newspaper and magazine pieces edited by William White, professor of journalism at Wayne State University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hero as Celebrity | 5/19/1967 | See Source »

...Widow-Maker, Jones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: May 12, 1967 | 5/12/1967 | See Source »

Hope does his best to get something risible visible, but halfway through he drowns in second banana oil. Winters' country-cozen dialect is familiar, and Phyllis Diller attacks her customary fright-wig role with the comic appeal of a black-widow spider putting away a fly. The kids are selfconscious, lending the film the aura of a mass-produced TV situation comedy. All that is missing is the commercials-and the energetic plugs for name-brand cereals and soaps more than compensate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Second Banana Oil | 5/12/1967 | See Source »

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