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...widower since 1943, tapir-nosed Comic Jimmy Duronte, 67, has long been a prime target for ladies in search of a mature man with wit. poise and rough-hewn charm. But Durante's only favorite since 1945 has been sometime Actress Margie Little, 39, who knows that a good man is not only hard to find but, in Durante's case, even harder to catch. The couple got engaged ten years ago, and by 1956 Jimmy mustered the courage to announce that they would be married the following year. The betrothal stretched out over the next four years...
...other recent Bergman films, is deftly handled and usually interwoven with the serious. As Tubal vends his "love potion," the old housekeeper is won over by the manager's hilariously cavalier manner, but her impatience for the potion derives, we learn, from her starvation for physical love. Conversely, wit is injected just after a particularly grim section when a drunkard who has been picked up by the troupe dies in their carriage. Nothing in the film, however, is quite so enjoyable as the uninterrupted bucolic clowning during the seduction of the inexperienced, yet swaggering coachman by the luscious maid (delightfully...
...TIME reported Murrow "bedded down with pneumonia" on election night in line with CBS's own statement that he had developed a "touch of pneumonia." TIME stands by its more general diagnosis, to wit: that CBS is no longer wholly responsive to Murrow's ideas and does not always use him to best advantage...
They are the dashing, derring-do boys of the National Football League, a tight little elite of halfbacks who survive by speed of foot and wit in a jungle of brute force. Although they may weigh 190 Ibs. or more, they are seldom risked in the crunch of line bucks against wrathful 260-lb. tackles. Instead, they whip downfield for passes, or take a pitchout in full stride to sweep around end. Given a yard or two of maneuvering room, they can break a game wide open by slithering, pirouetting, stutter-stepping and sprinting through a field of tacklers...
...rugged, resourceful football despite the Ivy League's thorough de-emphasis of the sport. Few old Blues, even of deepest hue, would argue that Yale could have won regularly against such emphasized football powers as Iowa, Missouri and Mississippi. But this year Yale had the strength, depth and wit to give a battle, on a given Saturday, to any team in the land. After watching his Pennsylvania team lose to seventh-ranked Navy (27-0) and Yale (34-9), Coach John Stiegman said flatly: "Yale's as strong as Navy in all departments...