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...Wald clearly had to clean up his subject for the screen. In the process, unfortunately, he converted Faulkner's county into a community almost as corny as Al Capp's Dogpatch, and reduced all the poetry of degradation to the customary commercial serving of fresh ham and pot likkah. And he replaced the emotional ingredients of The Hamlet's grand, grotesque romance-half arsenic, half cantharide-with a conventional love story that is at least as sweet as Coca-Cola...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 31, 1958 | 3/31/1958 | See Source »

Darryl V. March '59 will be the student manager of the Grille. Referring to his newly acquired business, March, who has worked for two years as a manager of the student refreshment agency, said, "I always wanted to get my fingers in that pot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Gives HSA Control Of Eliot Grill | 3/5/1958 | See Source »

Though the 1,214 students of Brooklyn's John Marshall Junior High School are a melting-pot group (45% are Negro, 10% Puerto Rican), the school until last December seemed an orderly place in a comparatively orderly neighborhood. Then suddenly things began to go wrong for John Marshall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Outrage in Brooklyn | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

American Motors President George Romney, who has staked the future of his company on the small car, last week raked in a fat pot. In the first quarter (which ended Dec. 31) of its current fiscal year, American Motors had a net profit of $4,948,736 v. a loss of $2,994,613 in the same period a year ago. The first quarterly profit in two years was due to the upsurge in Rambler sales, which rose 35% over last year's first quarter as production climbed to 41,492 cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: George Does It | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

...unseemly claims for his own influence on his brother during these apprentice years. He does report having arranged the order of the poems in Chamber Music and suggested the title. This gives the lie to Gogarty, who claimed that Joyce was inspired by the tinkle of a night pot in a brothel. For Joyce, the incomparable word-distiller, the charm doubtless rested in the title's double meaning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bloomsday's Child | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

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