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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must add to our sense of the disastrous foolishness in present conditions of this sniping and gibing . . . our surprise that so little is being done to reciprocate the constant Catholic invitation to better relations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: On Mixed Marriage | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

London Times reported that the "frightful" pictures had shocked many Americans; the Telegraph sniffed that they "can add nothing to the information, satisfaction or instruction of the public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Picture Story | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

Nocturne (RKO Radio), featuring George Raft as a deadpan detective, gets by in a superB way, but it will add no gloss to Producer Joan Harrison's shiny reputation (Phantom Lady, Uncle Harry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Nov. 4, 1946 | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

First, take a top, sure-fire star (Van Johnson). Add a pretty girl who can sing (Pat Kirkwood). Throw in a skilled comic (Keenan Wynn) and a couple of "name" orchestras (Guy Lombardo and Xavier Cugat). Never mind the plot. Van Johnson, looking winsome for the better part of two hours, is all the romance his bobby-sox worshipers really want. Wynn can handle the laughs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Nov. 4, 1946 | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

...great moral problems of our time. At 41, ex-Communist, now-Socialist Koestler is easily the top intellectual argufier writing today. Still picking the tough ones, he has now written a novel about Palestine and the Jews who claim it as their home. Thieves in the Night will not add a cubit to the stature of Koestler the novelist. But Koestler the acrobatic controversialist is at home in Palestine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Koestler on Palestine | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

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