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Indeed they are irresponsible. I am shocked at the outrageous smugness of your reviewer. I am willing, for the sake of argument, to grant that Dr. Farnsworth knows nothing of the field in which he has been trained and in which he has had considerable practice; but, not for any...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRITICISM | 1/8/1958 | See Source »

Courtly Motion. In Chicago, Judge William E. Helander wearily listened as an irate telephone subscriber sued the Illinois Bell Telephone Co. for charging $5 to change his phone from one color to another, became irked when the controversy developed into a long-winded session, finally reached into his own pocket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 16, 1957 | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

In his second match, he met Charley Hanks. They both weighed about 135 pounds, but Hanks was two or three inches taller and had a much longer reach. Roosevelt was also nearsighted, which made it hard for him to see and parry Hanks' blows. "When time was called after the...

Author: By Philip M. Boffey, | Title: Theodore Roosevelt at Harvard | 12/12/1957 | See Source »

This topnotch recording, conducted by Vienna's Karl Boehm and sung by an outstanding cast headed by Soprano Leonie Rysanek and Bass-Baritone Paul Schoeffler, reveals the Strauss score in all its turbulent brilliance, at times long-winded and meandering, but always the work of a master.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Operatic Records | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

But even Foy, thrust as an invisible character into an all-too-visible musicomedy mess, can never move with the show; he can only draw attention away from it, like someone marching exuberantly out of step. The story, with its romantic snarls and journalistic crises, clumps its stubbornly senseless, monstrously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Nov. 18, 1957 | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

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