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...rhythmic lark like The Music Man, which is as American as apple pie and a Fourth of July oration." Cheered the Herald Tribune's Walter Kerr: "The brightest, breeziest, most winning new musical to come along since My Fair Lady enchanted us all. [It's] a wow. A nice wow...

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

...WOW THAT COVER [April 21 ]. MAKE MINE GUINNESS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 12, 1958 | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

...slid to a stop before the U.S. Pavilion. Out got a heavy-built (205 Ibs.), 6-ft.-tall U.S. architect, his grey Homburg awry. Oblivious to the gathering circle of workmen, he stood transfixed before the building that seemed to float in the bright sunshine, softly murmured, "Wow!" Then, as his genial, basset-hound features broke into a delighted grin, he exclaimed: "God, isn't that the most beautiful damned thing you've ever seen in your whole life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: More Than Modern | 3/31/1958 | See Source »

...Gray's Anatomy, will have to settle for shots of Hammer emerging messily from off-camera, off-color encounters with negligeed women. But the other Spillane requisites that have sold close to 30 million copies of his seven novels are preserved: furious action, a complex plot, a wow finish. Still, Spillane wants no part of the new series except his fee ($25,000 and a cut of the receipts). "The real Mike Hammer sits back and laughs at his own show," he laughs, sitting back. "How about that! Sits back and laughs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 2/17/1958 | See Source »

Speaking to a financial pow-wow in Chicago, Eugene R. Black, president of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, made one of the more sanguine statements of the Sputnik period: "My first reaction to the earth satellites was to ask myself the question: If intelligent life is found on other planets, will the people there be borrowers or investors? Of course, if they are investors, there may lie the solution of all my money-raising problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 23, 1957 | 12/23/1957 | See Source »

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