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Knowing Giuliano's affection for his mother ("the dearest thing in our lives"), Meldolesi wangled permission to photograph the old lady in jail (where she is being held for helping her son). Roaming the countryside, he showed the pictures to every peasant, carter and fisherman he met, hoping one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: An Eagle for Cleverness | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

The pleasantly dissonant tuning up and chatter stopped in mid-note as the grey-haired man in the tan sport coat walked briskly across the stage to the podium. For a few silent moments his glance flickered over the musicians of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, his shale-blue eyes and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: There Will Be Joy | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

But he was recognized and respected among the barons of the underworld. He became an intimate of Arnold Rothstein, the great gambler and criminal banker; he gained the esteem and affection of Tammany Swagman Jimmy Hines. When Al Capone and the other big men of gangland met in the famous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: I Never Sold Any Bibles | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

A few of the international civil servants were perturbed by the state of the world. Denmark's Ole Svend Hamann showed a surrealist living room with a man sitting beside a radio, reading a newspaper. From his pipe rises a mushroom-shaped atomic cloud. "What is a home?" reads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Island of Peace? | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

Last week, at 21, Shirley completed Hollywood's classic domestic cycle-and startled millions of Americans who have followed her precocious public & private life with affection and a worrisome feeling that the years do whiz by. She filed a divorce suit against handsome, 28-year-old John Agar, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Dignified Manner | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

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