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It took a new breed of adventurer-explorer to bring the world to Middle Africa and to unfold its wonders for the world -men prompted not by simple greed but by human compassion and scientific curiosity, drawn onward by the land itself. There was the discoverer of Victoria Falls, David...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle Africa: Cradle of Tomorrow | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

In some raffish first-act comedy, and very fitfully thereafter, when Wendy Hiller and Franchot Tone give urgency to O'Neill's clouded scenes, or give a face to his sense of lostness, A Moon stirs to life. But mostly it lies dead; and something a little too...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, may 13, 1957 | 5/13/1957 | See Source »

Just as the staff is beginning to awaken the children from the nightmare of violence, past and present, the narrator's twin brother Nicky arrives. Nicky is handsome, hypnotic and unregenerate, a nostalgic Nazi still capable of strutting his party uniform in the midst of the Berlin airlift. As...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, may 6, 1957 | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

Dr. Bailey's face (on your cover), with its sternly chiseled features and cold, probing eyes, is a haunting one. Here is a man who has looked-literally-into other men's hearts; yet it is hard to conceive of his yielding to the more tender emotions, such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 15, 1957 | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

In River Stay 'way from My Door, it is brother Ira's harum-scarum pal "V.R." who puts the town in a tizzy by seeming to drown in the Skunk River. Unlike Mark Twain, who allowed Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn to attend their own funeral after a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Front Porch Vision | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

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