Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Carousel has moved Liliom from 20th-century Budapest to 19th-Century New England, and renamed the swaggering, bad-tempered barker Billy Bigelow. It has also, to its loss, reduced his swagger and taken away his Continental, scamp-like grace. But it tells much the same story and weaves much the same mood. Billy acts tough for fear of seeming tender, beats his wife lest he reveal he loves her. He commits a crime for his unborn child's sake, dies, leans carelessly against the bar of Heaven, returns to Earth for a day to try to do a good...
Celebrating both its 20th anniversary and the return to his desk after three years with OWI of lean, energetic, discerning Founder-President Harold Guinzburg, Manhattan's distinguished Viking Press memorably advertised...
...story of George Ray Tweed, the Navy radioman, who spent two and a half years on Jap-held Guam (TIME, Aug. 21) is as packed with adventure, suspense and endurance as Robinson Crusoe's own. In many respects Crusoe's 20th-Century counterpart went Crusoe one better. Tweed had no handy wrecked ship from which to salvage an "abundance of hatchets," nails, knives and other carpenter's tools. The only tool he had to build some of his furniture was a machete...
...more of a sight to the doughboys was the fabulous Adlerhorst (Eagle's Nest), Hitler's 20th-century eyrie on a peak west of Bad Nauheim. The rock-hewn retreat, served by three miles of subterranean corridors, sported 1,000 air-conditioned rooms with hidden exposures of the rustic scene below...
Molly and Me (20th Century-Fox) is the story of an unemployed English music-hall singer (Gracie Fields), who becomes housekeeper to a wealthy grouch (Monty Woolley), fires his crooked servants, reconciles him with his sensitive son (Roddy McDowall), and comically disposes of his renegade wife (Doris Lloyd), who has returned to make trouble. At picture's end she has him so sweetened up and housebroken that he sits with her in the kitchen late of an evening, singing a pretty, foolish little song which advises you to eat when you're hungry, and sleep when...