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Baedeker catalogued and annotated the seven major and countless minor wonders of the world. Absolute musts were designated by -**, e.g., the Louvre, Yellowstone Park, Windsor Castle, St. Peter's, the Pyramids, the Colosseum and the Morse Collection of Japanese Pottery in Boston. Lesser musts rated *, e.g., the Arc de Triomphe, the Paris Ritz, the WaldorfAstoria, the Jungfrau, Harvard and Yale (but not Princeton), Broadway, and the Brooklyn Post Office. Many a hotel offered handsome bribes for recommendation, but Baedeker remained the raspberry-red incorruptible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERIPATETICS: Two-Star Civilization | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

...biggest grossers. Some were holdovers from 1948, but even among those of 1949's crop (including some good ones), not one was even mentioned by the New York critics or the National Board: Jolson Sings Again, Pinky, I Was a Male War Bride, The Snake Pit, Joan of Arc, The Stratton Story, Mr. Belvedere Goes to College, Little Women, Words and Music, Neptune's Daughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Year's Best | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

...went on, "Father Feeney is a man rightly repudiated by his parish, his Order, and by his Church at Rome. His is the mentality that applied the torch to the medieval fagots of the Inquisition; his is the dogmatism that forced Galileo to recant and burned St. Joan of Arc. His is the bigotry at which sincere Churchmen pale with horror...

Author: By Brenton WELLING Jr., | Title: Public Debate Offer Refused By Fr. Feeney | 12/13/1949 | See Source »

...other passengers on Suzanne's plane, whose plans and hopes for the future were inevitably and inextricably intertwined with those of the earthbound: dapper, 67-year-old Bernard Boutet de Monvel, the famed portraitist son of an even more famed illustrator father (Filles et Garcons, Jeanne d'Arc); lovely Kate Kamen and her shrewd, spectacled husband Kay, the man responsible for bringing Mickey Mouse watches, stuffed Donald Ducks and other Disney-fathered creatures into millions of U.S. nurseries. There was dynamic young (30) Ginette Neveu who in 1947, according to one critic, stepped "practically unknown" upon the stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AZORES: These Are the Paths | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...concept that he had learned from studying the woodcuts of the 19th Century Japanese artists, Hiroshige and Hokusai. To Van Gogh, as to the Japanese, line was more than a lasso for capturing shapes, it was a way of touching and riding the slope of a field, the thirsty arc of a sunflower, the surge of a mountain or the flamelike thrust of a cypress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Agony, Bliss & Hard Labor | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

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