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It mattered little that BB's movie, En Cas de Malheur (In Case of Emergency), a Georges Simenon story about a successful lawyer's fatal obsession with a young slut failed to win (and that Japans "Rickshaw Man" did). A traveling movie fan named Elsa Maxwell just about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: BB in Venice | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

Kingdom by the Sea. The novel's European narrator calls himself Humbert Humbert and the doubletalk name sets the note of self-mockery that runs-laughter questioning the validity even of despair-throughout the book. Humbert's ignominious, fatal obsession is for little girls in the 9-14...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: To the End of Night | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

Humbert's obsession began in a dreamily distant beach resort where he met and desperately loved a girl-both being unlucky 13. Since Humbert is given to puckish literary references, the girl's name, of course, was Annabel Leigh (Poe spelled it Lee). After Humbert's early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: To the End of Night | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

Why is the U.S. the most marrying and divorcing nation in Western Christendom? Last week this phenomenon absorbed some 1,000 delegates from six countries at the National Catholic Family Life Convention in Buffalo. The Rev. Lucius F. Cervantes, Jesuit sociologist at Denver's Regis College, blamed the American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Thoughts for the Family | 7/28/1958 | See Source »

Eye on the Future. Staunch Republican Snedden did not always have his magnificent obsession. Growing up in the Northwest, he learned the backshop trades of the news business, mastered the Linotype when he was 14, developed into a skilled doctor of slumping papers, and, incidentally, made a pile in real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Magnificent Obsession | 7/14/1958 | See Source »

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