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But while O'Malley rounded up cash, the Sports Authority died on second. The Authority was not given enough money to do more than study its problems. As the Long Island Rail Road site faded into improbability, politicians began suggesting other places, but none of them were pleasing. "One...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Walter in Wonderland | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

Producer Wayne Emery and musical director Frank Modica have obviously done much to make Of Thee I Sing a spirited and engaging show. Sex (seven, count them, seven lovely girls in bathing suits,) a pleasing and exciting clash of color and motion, and the always rousing music and lyrics of...

Author: By Edmund B. Games jr., | Title: Of Thee I Sing | 4/17/1958 | See Source »

Pleasing, well-lighted and rich in art, the new museum in its first year is drawing well over 1,000 visitors a day. Most distinguished: Florence's nonagenarian Renaissance Art Expert Bernard Berenson, who summoned up strength to visit Capodimonte, stayed for more than half an hour before Masaccio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: MUSEUM FOR SEEING | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

Expert Solace. Dulles himself is aware as rarely before that it is almost impossible for a U.S. Secretary of State, by the power of his position and the difficulty of pleasing everybody, to be popular. Beyond that, he is disturbed by the personal criticism and by the fact that some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Attack Against Dulles | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

Freeman's poem, in contrast, specifically recognizes the existence of an audience. Certainly the most successful work in this Advocate, it is an hortatory stage whisper to "an audience" accompanied by appropriate rhythmic gestures. The poet succeeds in sharing with his readers some of stagecraft's "dreams," "contrived hallucinations" through...

Author: By John H. Fincher, | Title: The Advocate | 1/7/1958 | See Source »

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