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The challenges are many: the need for better schools, health, housing, power development, the peaceful use of atomic energy. Many Democrats, nonetheless, are blinded in their approach to these problems by "their obsession with the depression." Says the party of the future: Let us quit fighting the battles of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Handle of Faith | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

Spare. In Cleveland, Frank T. Doane, 43, asked the Court of Common Pleas to order his wife not to bowl more than one night a week, complained that she considers herself too expert to play with him and that she spends four nights a week in the alleys, driven by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 16, 1956 | 7/16/1956 | See Source »

Without giving too much away, I can say that the play deals with Eddie Carbone, an uneducated Brooklyn longshoreman who has reared his wife's niece over-protectively. He takes in to board two of his wife's Italian cousins as illegal immigrants; and when one of them falls in...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: A View From the Bridge | 7/12/1956 | See Source »

Died. Ralph Morgan (real name: Ralph Wuppermann), 72, veteran (since 1908) character actor of stage (Strange Interlude) and screen (Magnificent Obsession), elder brother of the late Comedian Frank Morgan, son of George Wuppermann, founder and first president of the Angostura-Wuppermann Corp. (bitters) ; after long illness, in Manhattan.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 25, 1956 | 6/25/1956 | See Source »

The Proud and the Beautiful* (Kings-ley-lnternational), a French film based on an original treatment by Jean Paul Sartre, is an existentialist soap opera-a sort of Magnificent Obsession with a French accent.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 18, 1956 | 6/18/1956 | See Source »

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