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Cakewalk (by Ruthanna Boris; music by Louis Gottschalk-Hershy Kay) takes off with wit and imagination on the traditional American minstrel show, complete with interlocutor, end men, magician, and a high-stepping Cakewalk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Three-Week Fling | 6/25/1951 | See Source »

After the ninth letter, the ninth reversal, the judge committed suicide in despair. But his fiendishly omniscient correspondent quickly found other victims -a bishop, a prince, a shipping magnate, the chancellor himself. The police were at wit's end. Who was the poison-pen man? How did he come by his astonishing information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Thinking Can Make It So | 6/11/1951 | See Source »

Buoyant Billions, Farfetched Fables & Shakes Versus Shav, by George Bernard Shaw. The last plays of G.B.S. A bit short on wit and wind, but still full of typically Shavian flashes (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Jun. 11, 1951 | 6/11/1951 | See Source »

...taught physics and mathematics in the U.S. and Canada, long enough for his speech to lose all but a touch of brogue. But in his new book, Science-Sense and Nonsense (Norton; $2.75), he shows that he has hung on to more than his share of native wit and irreverence-qualities that made his playwright uncle, John Millington Synge, the darling of the Irish renaissance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Super Priests | 6/4/1951 | See Source »

Buoyant Billions, Farfetched Fables & Shakes Versus Shav, by George Bernard Shaw. The last plays of G.B.S. A bit short on wit and wind, but still full of typically Shavian flashes (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Jun. 4, 1951 | 6/4/1951 | See Source »

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