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...bound to include some lemons, and a few canvases at the Guggenheim look not so much painted as beaten with muddy sticks. A contrastingly pristine nothing is Two Circles, by the art director for Conde Nast magazines, Alexander Liberman. Consisting simply of two shiny black disks on a white panel, it is as chic as two black eyes have become in cafe society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Whither Away | 5/31/1954 | See Source »

...Captain continues his search, he decides to present a panel show, "Brain's trust," to entertain the Army base. Made up of local oddities, the panel includes a love triangle composed of artist, wife, and rival. When the question of marriage is raised, these three breaks up the show, washing the soiled linen of their marriage in public, while Sim tries unsuccessfully to shift the discussion to bottle-flys and cows...

Author: By Dennis E. Brown, | Title: Folly To Be Wise | 5/26/1954 | See Source »

...long as Folly to be Wise sticks to its farcical panel show and Sim's fumblings, the film displays the flimsy plot of James Birdie's play, It Depends What You Mean, to best advantage. Moreover, it brings to the screen such engaging people as Martita Hunt, an English dowager, and Roland Culver, the caustic artist. But coupled with these unlikely characters are supposedly real people, a secretary and her beau, who want to know what marriage really means...

Author: By Dennis E. Brown, | Title: Folly To Be Wise | 5/26/1954 | See Source »

Official Crackdown. When 25-year-old Trackman Bannister was hustled aboard a plane at London airport under the alias "Richard Bentley," his flight to the U.S. was supposed to be a secret. He had been asked to appear on the CBS-TV panel show I've Got a Secret. The British Foreign Office came to the aid of the producers, Mark Goodson and Bill Todman, by persuading the British Amateur Athletic Board that the trip would help "cement British-American relations." By the time Bannister landed at New York's Idlewild airport, Reuters had broken the story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Bungle by a Ninny? | 5/24/1954 | See Source »

...publicize a new history book, Publishers Grosset & Dunlap asked a panel of 28 historians, educators and journalists (including Authors Stuart Chase and Raymond Moley, Journalists Ernest K. Lindley and Virginius Dabney) to rate the 100 most significant events in history. First place: Columbus' discovery of America. Second: Gutenberg's development of movable type. Eleven events tied for third place. Tied for fourth place: U.S. Constitution takes effect, ether makes surgery painless, X ray discovered, Wright brothers' plane flies, Jesus Christ is crucified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Fourth in Importance | 5/24/1954 | See Source »

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