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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...regulatory rather than a reform agency, thus got along fine with Wall Streeters. Besides, he understood Wall Street's problems and talked its language. During Hanrahan's reign as chairman, the Hoover Commission praised SEC as "an outstanding example of the independent commission at its best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: On the Move | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...telephoned Hearst's Louella Parsons, in whose syndicated column Hollywood's private lives pass regularly into the public domain. "Oh, it's not sudden," said Shirley (as related by Louella). "I've been in Palm Springs for six days trying to think out the best thing to do. I didn't want to break up my home and my marriage, but there's no other way. I don't want to hurt John. I want our separation and divorce to be dignified. I am merely going to charge cruelty. John is a nice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Dignified Manner | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...Heiress (Paramount) is a handsomely mounted, sumptuously acted film about a wallflower whose only social grace is a neat hand at embroidery. Directed and produced by William Wyler (Wuttiering Heights, The Best Years of Our Lives), The Heiress bears the Wyler trademark of painstaking high gloss. It is also a solid and impressive movie aimed at adults...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Oct. 24, 1949 | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

Every now & then-in shots of stampeding horses and the handling of human beings against the great outdoors-there are fleeting reminders of Ford's best films. But mostly, Yellow Ribbon is a sad waste of talent and Technicolor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Oct. 24, 1949 | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

Ichabod and Mr. Toad. In parts of an uneven doubleheader, Walt Disney is at his inventive best; with Bing Crosby and Basil Rathbone on the soundtrack (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Oct. 24, 1949 | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

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