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...SHOWOFF. A North Philadelphia family is forced to change gears when a monkey wrench, in the form of a loudmouth son-in-law (Clayton Corzatte), is thrown into the domestic proceedings. Helen Hayes leads the APA repertory company in a skillful revival of George Kelly's 43-year-old comedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jan. 12, 1968 | 1/12/1968 | See Source »

Ireland admits to feeling a "big emotional wrench" in leaving Alleghany, which he regards as a sort of "corporate Marine Corps." Son of a Portland, Me., chiropodist, Ireland himself was a genuine World War II hero in the Marines, which he joined after finishing Bowdoin. At 30, he joined the mercurial Robert Young at Alleghany as its $7,500-a-year secretary and counsel. Within three years, as Young and Partner Kirby immersed themselves in the long proxy battle that won them control of the Central from the Vanderbilt family, Ireland was running the store singlehanded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Executives: The Corporate Marine | 1/5/1968 | See Source »

...MANOR, by Isaac Bashevis Singer. A popular Yiddish storyteller proves that he also has the insights of a major novelist in this tragicomedy about the changes that wrench a Polish-Jewish family in the late 1800s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Nov. 3, 1967 | 11/3/1967 | See Source »

...MANOR, by Isaac Bashevis Singer. A popular Yiddish storyteller proves that he also has the insights of a major novelist in this tragicomedy about the changes that wrench a Polish-Jewish family in the late 1800s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Oct. 27, 1967 | 10/27/1967 | See Source »

...things run in families besides blond hair and bad teeth. A bent for politics, for instance, or aft ear for music, or a genius for making money. Richard Petty, 30, of Level Cross, N.C., was born with a silver spanner wrench in his mouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auto Racing: Boy with a Silver Spanner | 9/15/1967 | See Source »

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