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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last month we received a request from Ann Mulville, of Norfolk, Conn., for whatever information we might have on Salvatore Giuliano, Sicily's most renowned present-day bandit, who has achieved an international reputation for, among other overt acts, robbing the rich for the benefit of the poor. Miss Mulville explained: "We are having a mock trial of the case in our seventh grade at school, and I am the district attorney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jun. 20, 1949 | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

Theory & Practice. In Ann Arbor, Mich., Fred Viegel, 19, winner of a 1947 prize for an essay on fire prevention, was charged with burning down a rural schoolhouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 6, 1949 | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

...Married. Ann Todd, 39, high-strung blonde British cinemactress (The Seventh Veil, One Woman's Story"); and David Lean, 41, high-strung British cinema director (Brief Encounter, Great Expectations, One Woman's Story*); each for the third time; in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 30, 1949 | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

...Woman's Story (Rank; Universal-International) has been told often and better by Hollywood. In this ill-advised British-made version, the glamorous, irresolute heroine (Ann Todd) decides to marry wealth and security (Claude Rains), but she cannot bring herself to let go of romance (Trevor Howard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, May 30, 1949 | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

...plot, Canyon is long on curry-combs and pancake. Most of the principals, both two-legged and four-legged, look as sleek and dustless as the population of a dude ranch. To give their implausible doings a sagebrush flavor, the dialogue is spiked with labored cracker-barrel idioms, e.g., Ann is "pretty as a blue-nosed trout," another character as "crazy as popcorn on a hot stove." No one but the popcorn addicts and the very young will mistake Canyon for anything but a dull movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 23, 1949 | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

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