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CBS, searching for a substitute to take Kaufman's place, was turned down by Newsman John Daly ("I think Kaufman's dismissal was both unnecessary and absurd"), Comic Garry Moore ("Responsible people shouldn't give way to the small segment of the public who are all too...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Troubled Air | 1/12/1953 | See Source »

After a happy Christmas Eve visit with their grownup children, Mr. & Mrs. Willi Fehlauer were returning to their Berlin home in the early hours of Christmas morning. Millions of other people around the world were doing the same thing, but the difference in the Fehlauers' case was that their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Borderland Incident | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

All this prying into marsupial secrets, says Dr. Hartman, is more than idle curiosity or an effort to explain away old folklore. In the possum's pouch, science can study living embryos outside the womb. Thus, from the thick-witted possum, man may learn some lessons on how to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Monstrous Beaste | 12/15/1952 | See Source »

Sparked by a bad-tempered, red-faced, 45-year-old bachelor named Gilbert Harding, the BBC's What's My Line?, like its U.S. counterpart, has four sharp-witted panelists. These regulars ask pointed questions of each guest in an effort to find out his occupation. On both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Winkle-Washers | 9/1/1952 | See Source »

This cheerful excuse for a plot is taken seriously by neither Sholom Aleichem nor his characters. What matters is the vivid parade of penniless producers, starving actors, shrewd sharpers and keen-witted kibitzers who rollick through the book. This volatile world often seems like something out of the merrier parts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lost World | 7/14/1952 | See Source »

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