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Your critic's verbal sideswipe was obviously an attempt at tin-pot philosophy, concocted from a vacant mind and a typewriter with keys. Has he ever been drunk for 16 years? Has he ever had to fight with anything outside of an empty tube of toothpaste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 13, 1956 | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

...back on her feet in big-time vaudeville (audiences at Manhattan's Palace and London's Palladium wept on hearing again her old, nostalgic Over the Rainbow), catapulted her higher than ever in movies and on TV. But somehow the Lufts' rainbow ended in a pot of debts, piled up, according to Luft's friends, because of his unhappy knack of betting on also-ran horses. Last week, after nearly four years of marriage and two children, Judy, 32, sued Luft, 39, for divorce. Grounds: extreme mental cruelty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 13, 1956 | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

...Qumrân community looked for the coming of two Messiahs-their own Teacher and a Messiah from the line of David. "At one time it was all so clear, but now everything seems to be in the melting pot. What is clear is that there was a well-defined Essenic pattern into which Jesus of Nazareth fits. What theologians make of that is really outside my province. I just give my findings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Crucifixion Before Christ | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

...Tomorrow (M-G-M). "It is better to light one candle," somebody said last year in heartfelt testimonial to Lillian Roth's bestselling autobiography of an alcoholic, "than to curse the darkness." It may be so. In any case, there is not much sense in lighting a smudge pot. This picture, based on the book, is perhaps not so murky as all that, but it certainly will not brighten the corner where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 23, 1956 | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

...first goal Sunday, against Northeastern, was a Cleary specialty. Taking a pass on the wing, he went in alone on goalie Bill Lawn and faked him out of the cage as beautifully as he ever faked B.C.'s Chick D'Entremont in suddendeath overtime of the Bean Pot final, or Yale's George Scherer in the first period of last year's 9-1 rout...

Author: By Charles Steedman, | Title: Bon Voyage | 1/17/1956 | See Source »

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