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...inhabitants of the tight little island, located in the Outer Hebrides 100 miles from the English mainland and "To the West, there is nothing--but America," would agree with Harry Stack Sullivan, famous American psychiatrist. Sullivan once said about alcohol, "I do not see how mankind could exist without this most marvelous of chemical compounds." One native echoes him, "It is a well-known medical fact that some men are born two drinks below normal...

Author: By Bryce E. Nelson, | Title: Tight Little Island | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

...they get married. Unfortunately, the sudsy plot is only just getting under way. The moviegoer who decides to sit it out can watch Dorothy Malone play a nymphomaniac who has a yen for Rock Hudson, who, in turn, has a yen for Lauren, who gets slapped around by Stack, who eventually shoots himself accidentally, which enables Rock and Lauren to fall into each other's arms at last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 4, 1957 | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

Written on the Wind (Universal-International) opens with Rock Hudson, geologist for a Texas oil company, taking Lauren Bacall, a secretary, to lunch at a swank Manhattan saloon where there is no telling what a pretty girl may be offered after the dessert. There she meets Robert Stack, an oil millionaire who quickly establishes the fact that he is a rich Texan by debonairly putting out his cigarette in a glass of champagne. Texan Stack asks Lauren to go for a ride before going back to the office. She accepts. Some hours later, the ride ends in Miami, where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 4, 1957 | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

...stack of pamphlets is in three piles. The first pile contains one-sixth of them, the second pile several fifths of them, and the third pile contains six. What is the total number of pamphlets? Answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 21, 1957 | 1/21/1957 | See Source »

...close behind them as they marched came another army of political agitators, experts of the secret police, and a parasitic host of Hungarian expatriate Communists. In the first post-war election held on Nov. 4. 1945, the Communists came in a bad third, with only 800,257 votes to stack up against the 2,688,161 votes of the democratic Smallholders Party, which was led by Bela Kovacs and Ferenc Nagy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: THE LAND & THE PEOPLE | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

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