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"The National Elf Lark." Pop urges the hung-over tax man to put in for sick leave ("the National Elf Lark"), and before long Charlie beds down with Mariette in a field of buttercups. But it is the strawberry-sweet juice and joy of life with Pop and Ma Larkin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: British Funhouse | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

The Dallas kids yelled as the fat man stumped onstage, flashed an 88-key grin and tore into the piano with both hands, like a starving man wolfing a platter of chicken. The kids shrilled an octave higher as the performer knocked out a couple of bars introduction, then quieted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Fats on Fire | 6/10/1957 | See Source »

Homework Upstairs. Today, after 25 years in Milan, Family Doctor DeTar runs a one-man show at a pace that would weaken many a younger physician. After wolfing his breakfast, he slips by nine into his elaborate ground-floor office (laboratory, three examination rooms, four secretaries) to welcome the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Generalists' General | 4/2/1956 | See Source »

Betty Grable, Lauren Bacall and Marilyn Monroe, cast as three little lovebirds in search of a gilded cage, decide that the best way to catch a millionaire is to set a trap. They set one, accordingly, in a sublet apartment on Manhattan's Sutton Place-a happy hunting ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 23, 1953 | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

Very fitful, in the current Room Service, is the fun spawned of a shoestring producer living on tick with his cast while desperately trying to snag a backer. The whole first act is drearily obstreperous-for one reason because the cast plays straight to the audience, as though the backer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Play in Manhattan, Apr. 20, 1953 | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

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