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...Civilization on Trial, British Historian Arnold J. Toynbee writes that the people most likely to survive in the event of all-out atomic war would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congress and the President | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

...best, they were just "entertainment," and a pretty low grade of it at that. The Pirate is obviously made by people who know that few things in the world could be better, as entertainment and as a work of art, than a first-rate musical. Indeed, as an all-out try at artful moviemaking, this is among the most interesting pictures of the year. Unluckily, much of the considerable artistry that has gone into this production collides head-on with artiness, or is spoiled by simpler kinds of miscalculation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 21, 1948 | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

Harry Truman once complained that it is easier to move Barnum & Bailey's circus across the country than it is for a U.S. President to travel. This week, as the White House hummed with preparations for his first all-out political trip of the campaign, Harry Truman was making the Big Top look like a pup tent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Rx for Democrats | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

...Choreographer De Mille's first all-out try at murder. She had long been fascinated by the story of Lizzie Borden, the Fall River (Mass.) spinster who was tried in the '90s for the ax murder of her father and stepmother. Last year ("because I was feeling gloomy and murderous") she started building a ballet to show in Freudian terms how a young girl might get worked up to murder. One difference: her heroine commits the murders onstage and hangs; Lizzie Borden was acquitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Murder at the Met | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

Americans Are Faster. Neither in Jerusalem, nor London, nor Washington nor Lake Success was there any sign last week of solid planning toward a set-up in Palestine that would prevent ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Tohuvavohu | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

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