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...renounced his former control over lighting, staging, dance arrangements and sets. During rehearsals, Miltie restricted himself to learning his routines and yelling at the piano player. Perhaps for this reason, on his opening show, he was little more than a carpenter's assistant to the wild house wrecker he once was. His one-minute exchange with Guest Bob Hope was mildly funny, his opening monologue even milder, and his dance routine was just routine. Many viewers will be happy that he is trying to get his laughs standing up instead of falling down, but even those who welcome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Neither New nor Old | 10/20/1958 | See Source »

...wrecker who walks the town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Builder or Wrecker? | 7/14/1958 | See Source »

...HOME WRECKER Dear Abby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Run-Around | 5/19/1958 | See Source »

...that menace the independence of France-Bolshevik Russia and the United States-the latter is by far the worse." Then the banderilleros retired, and Gaillard found himself face to face with burly Gaullist Jacques Soustelle, the man whom Frenchmen have come to call Jacques le tombeur-Jacques the Cabinet-wrecker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Wrecker | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

...Aztec. A beetle-browed 200-pounder whose suits seem a size too small, 46-year-old Jacques Soustelle is well suited for his wrecker's work; he looks like an able-bodied warehouseman who has unaccountably wandered into the National Assembly from Les Halles markets. In reality, he is a coldly brilliant scholar who graduated from Paris' famed Ecole Normale Supérieure at 20, won fame as an anthropologist by a series of notable books on the Incas and Aztecs. Soustelle's travels in Latin America with his Tunis-born wife-also an anthropologist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Wrecker | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

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