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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even when he was riding an alligator in the forests of British Guiana (see cut) or indulging his habit of "scratching the back of his head with the big toe of his right foot," Naturalist Charles Waterton (1782-1865) could not forget or forgive the Reformation of the Church of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Birds & Bigotry | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Movies produced or directed by Clarence Brown (Flesh and the Devil, National Velvet") are not likely to be commonplace. Intruder is an honest attempt to picture the South as it actually is, but Brown's efforts to underplay the sensational and the macabre material lead to an impression of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Dec. 12, 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

The Doctor and the Girl (MGM) is a painless medical movie glorifying the general practitioner. Young Dr. Glenn Ford, a ruthlessly ambitious intern, is put through a soap-opera wringer until he reforms and becomes a bighearted country doctor with an office under Manhattan's Third Avenue El.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Dec. 12, 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

The movie is the occasion for a film comeback by Bellevue Hospital, which was also used for backgrounds in The Lost Weekend, The House on 92nd Street and The Naked City. Janet Leigh is probably the cutest lung abscess case ever to enter a hospital, and Ford, with his well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Dec. 12, 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

The hottest bestseller of 1949 runs to less than 1,000 words and sells for an even dollar. White Collar Zoo is a collection of 73 brightly captioned pictures illustrating a well-known truth: that the posturings and expressions of any group of human beings and those of an animal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Beast In Us | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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