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Wine-Smeared Likeness. During various other jaunts to London and his famous ramble through the Hebrides with Johnson, Boswell is at his best. The pictures he draws are wine smeared and flecked with spittle, but they catch a brilliant likeness: Oliver Goldsmith fuming because he cannot break into a conversation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bozzy at His Best | 2/1/1960 | See Source »

Gradually, a few other passengers were heard from, but they insisted they had not even seen the bloodstained young man. In spite of offers of nearly $17,000 in rewards, and assurances that their anonymity would be protected, the four vital witnesses-the two men seen talking to the stranger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Man on Bus No. 8 | 1/11/1960 | See Source »

Representative John V. Lindsay (R-N.Y.) called the loyalty sections of the NDEA, particularly the disclaimer affidavit, a "dreadful thing, something that makes no sense."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rep. Lindsay Backs Loyalty Oath Repeal | 10/23/1959 | See Source »

The colonel was Comedian Art Carney, joined by Hermione Gingold in a parody of Separate Tables: Carney lost in Hermione's furs, and Carney in suicidal despair over having given the "wrong order" on D-day ("Desert!") was as funny as anything seen on TV. On his first of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Major Clown | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

Stouthearted TV viewers have watched 1) alleged stomach acid rot a pocket handkerchiei, 2) elderly couples kissing while an announcement reassured the lovers that a special cleanser would keep their dentures pure, 3) corns the size of pumpkins pried out of plaster toes that could belong to the Colossus of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Tearing the Tissue | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

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