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Athletes, sex, and a touch of comedy usually wow 'em in the balcony, even those who are watching the movie. But Damn Yankees missed some where. Even the famous and controversial striptease scene fails to come...

Author: By Richard E. Ashcraft, | Title: Damn Yankees | 10/17/1958 | See Source »

...Defiant Ones would have been better in the hands of Kazan or Houston, but it does not turn out badly under Kramer's administration. And it will not, at any rate, wow them in Mobile...

Author: By Daniel Field, | Title: The Defiant Ones | 9/30/1958 | See Source »

...world's biggest gas well blew in, and it was enough to wow even the most blase of engineers-"This is one helluva big well . . . the biggest." That it was. Drilled by Shell Oil Co. of Canada, Ltd. and the British American Oil Co, Ltd., in the muskeg 150 miles northwest of Edmonton, Alta., it roared in with a fabulous open-flow potential of 1.5 billion cu. ft. per day. Its closest competitor is a 500 million-cu.-ft. well owned by Phillips Petroleum Co. in Pecos County, Texas, and the nearest thing Canada has seen is a dwarf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: The Biggest Gas Well | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

...statement saying 'I am going back to school because.' Enter today-that sawbuck will look pretty sharp in your pocketbook! The grand prize winner will win $100 in loot. Take part in all these kicks!" Sample promotion tagline: "The little red school house is-well-like wow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Try School Today | 9/8/1958 | See Source »

...last week The Music Man was a well-established wow. Ticket-hungry New Yorkers and summer visitors swarmed around the box office at every performance, trying to wangle one or two seats in the orchestra ($8.05)-or even a square foot of standing space ($3). The Music Man was the toughest ticket in town, even harder to snag than My Fair Lady, and, for expense-account buyers, worth the $50 scalpers' price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Pied Piper of Broadway | 7/21/1958 | See Source »

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