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Adlai Stevenson, LL.D., U.S. representative to the U.N. His intelligence and ready wit have informed and enlivened the political experience of a generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kudos: Round III | 6/25/1965 | See Source »

...DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ENTIRE WORLD AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF COLE PORTER REVISITED romps through the lighter side of life during the crash, the Depression and World War II. The Porter wit and comic insight prove there was indeed a lighter side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Theater, Records, Cinema, Books: Jun. 25, 1965 | 6/25/1965 | See Source »

MIRAGE. A plot that often seems trickier than a Chinese puzzle is pieced together entertainingly by a traumatized scientist (Gregory Peck) and a rather inept private eye (Walter Matthau) who keeps his wit about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jun. 18, 1965 | 6/18/1965 | See Source »

...wit, or powder on the face, Or Wednesday matinees, or misses' clothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Telltale Hearth | 6/18/1965 | See Source »

...comedy more than two hours long, some of the sight gags, chase sequences and romantic interludes add more weight than wit; and an aged running joke about German militarism threatens at moments to send the show into a nosedive. But the day is nearly always saved by an inspired stroke of slapstick, a device wielded with mighty effect by Gert Frobe as Germany's Colonel von Holstein. Frobe faces his French foe (Jean-Pierre Cassel) in a mad duel fought with blunderbusses from a pair of balloons bobbing above a drainage pond. The major casualty is Sordi, whose test...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Craft of Comedy | 6/18/1965 | See Source »

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