Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Battle" is a mild, unpretentious children's book about sheepdogs and Scots and such. A few years ago an English company screened the story, called it "To the Victor," and ended up with a picture that won all kinds of critical accolades. Now 20th Century-Fox has got its hands on the same little book, and again come up with a new title--it seems the first one (the name of a dog) had all the evil earmarks for a War Picture, a current boxoffice bane. But what goes with the title this time is not so remarkable...
...Daphne Skouras, daughter of 20th Century-Fox Chief Spyros Skouras, by her marriage to Oren Root Jr., socialite lawyer who organized the Willkie Clubs...
...take them to the theater are, as a rule, nicely taken care of too-which can rarely be said of the reverse process. An excellent movie for children is the Australian-made Bush Christmas (Rank; Universal-International). A passable one is the American-made Thunder in the Valley (20th Century...
...Rogers, who was a willing victim, once called Sculptor Jo Davidson "the last of the savage head-hunters." Last week 187 of his trophies, the work of 41 years, went on exhibition in Manhattan's American Academy of Arts and Letters. Together they made a procession of the 20th Century's famous men, and a few of its women...
Other ages have had their individual traitors-men who from faintheartedness or hope of gain sold out their causes. But in the 20th Century, for the first time, men banded together by millions, in movements like fascism and communism, dedicated to the purpose of betraying the institutions they lived under. In the 20th Century, treason became a vocation whose modern form was specifically the treason of ideas...