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¶Brazil, in exchange for coffee, cotton, cacao and wool sent to Czechoslovakia, Poland and Hungary, got only 42% of the machinery and other goods promised by the Reds, wound up 1954 holding a bagful of credits.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: The Red Market | 10/17/1955 | See Source »

Mr. Roberts (Warner) should be one of the biggest moneymakers of the year. It combines a sure-fire story, the honest-Injun appeal of Henry Fonda, and a bagful of tried and true comedy situations. Based on the long-run Broadway hit by Joshua Logan and the late Thomas Heggen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 18, 1955 | 7/18/1955 | See Source »

Although Now for Nordine is only a few weeks old, Nordine himself is no stranger to experimental television. For more than a year he has been frightening and delighting Chicago audiences with eerie readings of classic horror tales such as Poe's Pit and the Pendulum, Lovecraft's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Double Life | 8/9/1954 | See Source »

As a preacher, Howard Butt spends from six to eight weeks a year conducting revivals, filling in for ministers and addressing church groups throughout the country. Riding the airlines from engagement to engagement with a bagful of books, he tries to find time to read. On such Christian junketings, "God...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: God's Groceryman | 4/26/1954 | See Source »

Roosevelt and Hopkins is full of details that make it far more colorful than historical fiction. Once when Roosevelt complained that he never could have peanuts because his secret service would have to check each one, Sherwood and Rosenman slipped out and got him a bagful which he kept under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Thin Man | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

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