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...them with a comic gift that is a major wonder of the entertainment world, and with some skillful assistance from Director Vincente (Gigi) Minnelli manages to jog and jazz and jigger a merely middling book and some fairly forgettable tunes into one of the year's liveliest and wittiest cinemusicals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 20, 1960 | 6/20/1960 | See Source »

...Chevy Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.) For the second time this year Dinah Shore presents Mike Nichols and Elaine May, the barstool-to-barstool comedy team and wittiest dialectical immaterialists in show business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Dec. 29, 1958 | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

...Steve Allen Show (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Guest (on film) Ingrid Bergman is all sweetness and Guest Jonathan Winters one of the weirdest, wittiest lights shining; Allen himself splits the difference. Color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA,TELEVISION,THEATER,BOOKS: From Hollywood | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

...Perfect!" In his estate at Sands Point, L,I., Swope fussed over three generations of his family (two children, four grandchildren) and presided grandly at some of the wittiest dinner parties in the nation. No foreign dignitary could say he had been a success in the U.S. until he had been to Sands Point to play a round of big-league croquet against such guests as Averell Harriman, the Marx brothers, William Randolph Hearst Jr. or Swope's late elder brother Gerard, onetime president and board chairman of General Electric. On the croquet court Swope was insufferable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Death of a Reporter | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

Ending the concert on a nice light-hearted note, Miss Smith sang Nor-man Shapiro's Songs from the Animal Kingdon; the texts are among the wittiest of Ogden Nash's poems. It is worthwhile following the career of Sarah Jane Smith; she is already very good, and she gets better all the time...

Author: By Stephen Addiss, | Title: Sarah Jane Smith | 12/21/1956 | See Source »

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