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...Ocean's 11, starring Frank Sinatra, as an "Our Gang comedy for grownups." The Fugitive Kind, a movie based on a Tennessee Williams play, was ''Tennessee Williams tromping around barefooted again in that same old Dixie cup." Dazed by an endless procession of indefatigable ants in Walt Disney's Secrets of Life, Ricketts wrote: "They know nothing but work, work, work and sex, sex, sex. Where they find the time to spoil picnics, we'll never know." Now and then, in rare moments of softness, the Ricketts hostility wanes: "We-we liked-liked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Un-100% American | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

...Washington came evidence that Helen Kroger was, in fact, Lona Petka of Adams, Mass., and her husband was Morris Cohen, sometime of New York City, who had played guard on Monroe High's championship 1927 football team. Teammates remembered him as "Unc," for his likeness then to Uncle Walt of the Gasoline Alley comic strip. Unc Cohen went on to take a degree at Mississippi State College, later fought with the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War (his nom de guerre: Israel Altman), hired out as a guard at the Soviet pavilion during the 1939 New York World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Secrets of the Deep | 2/17/1961 | See Source »

...gets upset when he catches an accidental elbow in a scramble for a loose ball. Detroit's Walt Dukes (7 ft., 220 lbs.) has the sharpest elbows in the league, beats a painful tattoo on the heads of friend and foe alike. Used intentionally, however, the elbow can be a far more effective weapon than a punch. Says one coach on the ethics of elbowing: "It's perfectly all right for me to belt someone if he flagrantly holds me repeatedly when we're not fighting over the ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Graceful Giants | 2/17/1961 | See Source »

...nicest things that have happened so far this year to dog's best friend: a full-length (80 minutes) animutted curtoon that should please just about everybody but cats and will probably make the youngsters yap-happy. It is the wittiest, most charming, least pretentious cartoon feature Walt Disney has ever made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pupcorn | 2/17/1961 | See Source »

...Walt Disney Presents (ABC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). Disney displays canines from around the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Feb. 10, 1961 | 2/10/1961 | See Source »

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