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...crude paramour Morey instead of that of a new Prince Charming is the only originality. Hart's background characters are better creations than his protagonists. The two not-so-innocent visitors from Harrisburg are superb caricatures, as is the TV actress so enmeshed in her role of Alice in Wonderland that her husband complains, "Did you every try to sleep with The White Rabbit...

Author: By Charles S. Whitman, | Title: In The Golden Prime | 2/8/1963 | See Source »

...Alice in Wonderland and Jack in Washington have a lot in common...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Using the Brain | 2/1/1963 | See Source »

...almost as wacky as the Mad Hatter's outdoor tea party in Wonderland. Smack in the middle of a mud-fouled road at Pumpi, 40 miles from Secessionist Moise Tshombe's last-ditch headquarters at Kolwezi, United Nations Brigadier Reginald Noronha set up four folding tables and laid out tea, peanut-butter sandwiches, coffee and Simba beer. At 9 a.m.. right on schedule, four Katanga province officials and three representatives of the Union Miniere mining outfit roared up in two autos. ''We have come to meet you as friends," declared one, and the party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congo: Tea & Harmony | 2/1/1963 | See Source »

...Wonderland of Manhattan's Four Seasons restaurant, seven precocious Alices tucked their curves into kiddie clothes at ex-Showgirl Gregg Sherwood Dodge's Thank Heaven for Little Girls fashion show to raise money for her pet charity-Girls' Town, U.S.A.-an as yet unbuilt Florida home for "abandoned" girls from ten to 18 years old. Onto a makeshift stage pranced such moppets as Actresses Susan Kohner, 25, Susan Strasberg, 24, and Tisha Sterling, 17, daughter of Actress Ann Sothern; then came a formation of New York-Rome jet setlets, led by Harper's Bazaar playgirl Christina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 16, 1962 | 11/16/1962 | See Source »

Boston politics are somewhat like the croquet game in Alice in Wonderland; the rules are topsy-turvy. A criminal conviction not only fails to tarnish a local candidate, but can enhance his political prospects. The latest example of this strange phenomenon is the victory of convict Charles Iannello, a political maverick from Roxbury's eighth ward, in the recent Democratic primary...

Author: By William A. Nitze, | Title: The People's Choice | 10/19/1962 | See Source »

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