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Conspirator (M-G-M). The Sally Benson script, based on the Humphrey Slater novel, is more a study of stupidity than treason. Robert Taylor, a wooden-faced major in a British Guards regiment, has been a Red agent since he was 15, apparently because he enjoyed his conspiratorial adolescence in Ireland. He breaks party discipline by marrying Elizabeth Taylor, an American visitor to London, who is portrayed as vain, vapid and addicted to double-takes. Since even his addlepated wife soon catches on that he is a traitor, the party orders Robert to kill her. On a duck hunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 22, 1950 | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

...varsity boating is the same as Haines announced two weeks ago. Austie Flagg strokes the first eight, Ted Barrett rows seven, Ted House six, John Morgan five, Frank Benson four, Byrne Marston three, Bob Menslage two, and Sam Allen bow. Bill Chadwick...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '53 Crew Again Seeks First Win Today As 150's Open Season Here Against MIT | 4/29/1950 | See Source »

Austie Flagg, stroke of the '52 first boat, is stroking the varsity this year, with veteran Tod Barrett in the seven seat. Ted House at six, John Morgan at five, and Frank Benson at four are all sophomores who rowed for Haines last season. Byrno Marston is in the number three slide, and veterans Bob Menslago and Sam Aiken hold down the same positions, two and bow, that they rowed last year. Bill Chadwick...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 150-1b. Crew Boasts 7 Veterans; Prepares for 1st Race, April 29 | 4/18/1950 | See Source »

Number eight in his caravan of cartoon collections, Peter Arno's Sizzling Platter revives the gawking, girl-crazy old hell-raiser for a few sad appearances. He still lassoes his prey with diamond necklaces ("You certainly know my Achilles' heel, Mr. Benson"), buys yachts ("How many does it-er-sleep?"), invests in mink ("She got it by going 'brrrr' in front of Bergdorf's"). But what may be his final fling finds him corralled at last by a barbed-wire surtax: while his stern better half sits guard near by, the fat, fading Park Avenue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Shoo Shoo, Sugar Daddy | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...rest of the Ford voting stock is held by Clara Ford, Mrs. Edsel Ford, her sons Henry, Benson and William, and her daughter, Mrs. Josephine Ford. On the basis of their holdings, the dividends were: $24,358 to Clara Ford, who holds about 3.1% of all the voting stock outstanding; $64,719 to Mrs. Edsel Ford, who holds 8.3%; and $258,879 to her children, who together have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIVIDENDS: Payoff | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

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