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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lester Mee (TIME, May 5,1947). She scooped a horde of male reporters by getting aboard the police-impounded yacht and scampering off with Mee's diary. Last March she got Septuagenarian Vic Shaw to tell the intimate story of her life as one of Chicago's best-known madams. (She sneeringly told Norma she was such a "little cracker you wouldn't be no good in a house.") Last summer Norma went after Chicago's quack doctors and had everything from electric vibrators to "atom water" prescribed for her imaginary ailments ; one of her "doctors...
Higgledy-Piggledy. But of course, added Berlin, "many of these excellent young people could not . . . either read or write, as these activities are understood in our best universities. That is to say, their thoughts came higgledy-piggledy out of the big, buzzing, booming confusion of their minds, too many pouring out chaotically in the same instant . . . Somewhere in their early education there was a failure to order, to connect and to discriminate...
...panic of 1907, he started taking roomers into the family's modest adobe dwelling at $1 a day, and Connie helped him. But it wasn't what young Hilton wanted. He went into politics and, with the help of a well-organized graveyard vote ("the best people in the county"), was elected, at 24, to New Mexico's first state legislature...
...Bicycle Thief (De Sica; Mayer-Burstyn), an Italian-made film by Vittorio De Sica (Shoeshine) arrives in the U.S. heavy with prizes and praise collected in Europe. Rene Clair has called it "the best film for 30 years." It is a fine, sentimental tragedy, filled with bitter social comment and presented in the realistic style which the modern Italian moviemakers have made their trademark...
Passport to Pimlico. The British at their comic best, spoofing nationalism, bureaucracy and themselves (TIME...