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Arthur Sulzberger
Arthur Ochs "Punch" Sulzberger is most celebrated--and rightly so--for his decision in 1971 to publish the Pentagon Papers, an archive detailing how the...
Which Is The Better Best Picture: It Happened One Night or Lawrence of Arabia?
IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT Frank Capra’s 1934 screwball comedy, the charming story of a runaway heiress (Claudette Colbert) and a down on his luck newspaper reporter...
Watch: The Best Christmas Films of All-Time
From Scrooge to the neo-classic Elf, TIME’s Richard Corliss picks his favorite Christmas movies of all time.
Life, Above All: A Frank Capra Vision of a Devastating Plight
Two years ago, a drama with a seemingly forbidding subject -- an illiterate teenage girl, pregnant with her father's child and hellishly abused by her...
Is This Still Frank Capra's America?
On a cold night just after New Year's, I watched one of Frank Capra's movies--not a bad way to keep warm, if you choose the right Capra. I wanted to tune in on...
I'M JUST THAT SIMPLE
It was a riveting sight: there, in the capitol itself, a U.S. Senator often mocked for his halting, inarticulate speaking, reached deep into his Midwestern roots...
THEATER: COMIC TURNS
Heaven lies far away, in California. It's called The Twilight of the Scarlet Pimpernel, a movie to be directed by Frank Capra. Purgatory is right at hand, in...
CINEMA: Half-Baked in Corporate Hell
So far, it's been a great year for Art Deco. The hype for Barbra Streisand's auction of her extensive Deco collection has been almost as impressive as the...
Books: How It Was
THE NAME ABOVE THE TITLE by Frank Capra. 513 pages. Macmillan. $12.50. The formula seldom changed. At the end of every typical Frank Capra movie Mr. Deeds Goes...
Earthquake Dangers for S and Ls
½Profit squeezes cause some fears of financial chaos Savings and loan associations are almost as homespun as Jimmy Stewart. In Frank Capra's 1946 movie It's a...
