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...Whose syndicated column she used last week to flail the electronic monster that created her: "Maybe the brisk climate that prodded our forebears into building a nation has become too well heated to build a network with blood coursing through its veins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Perils of Arlene | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

...hoax. He and Saunders cooked it up last fall in Washington at a meeting of the cartooning clan ("a pretty damn dull profession"). Rapp will go on taking raps for a few weeks until, says Capp, Saunders "casually reveals at the end that I'm not a monster." Confirmed Cartoonist Saunders: "Rapp just follows the public concept of Capp, an egotistical, arrogant, unreasonable fellow, which, of course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Rap for Capp | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

...actors obscure (Bela Lugosi is dead and Boris Karloff has graduated to TV) and taglines visceral: The Man Who Turned to Stone ("Incredible revelations from the blackest annals of medicine!"), Zombies of Mora Tau ("A tide of terror!''), Half Human ("Half-man, half-beast, but ALL MONSTER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shock Around the Clock | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

...into this were-world has slouched a new sort of creature: the cave-chested, pout-lipped, black-jacketed hero of such pictures as Rock All Night ("Some have to dance . . . some have to kill!"), Reform School Girl ("Boy-hungry wildcats gone mad!"). The teen-spleen movies, following the monster epic's formula of low-budget and low brain-wattage, are packing in the same audiences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shock Around the Clock | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

...announcer. Though trumpets blared, fireworks exploded and uniformed Communist youth groups marched, the Communist TV cameras inadvertently gave the show away by panning slowly across thousands of empty seats. After that, embarrassed East German Communists gave up live TV coverage of the Khrushchev tour, and set about organizing a monster windup rally in East Berlin's Marx-Engels Platz that would give their Russian master a Red-hot sendoff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EAST GERMANY: K. Minus B. | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

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