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...prominent front teeth, the triangular vaccination on his arm and the pigeon-shaped mole of Louis Bourbon on Naundorff's thigh, she became convinced that he was the Dauphin. Naundorff even had a scar on his upper lip like that which the imprisoned Dauphin had got from the bite of an angry rabbit; the Dauphin had screamed the era's worst insult, "aristocrate," at the bunny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Lost or Found | 10/16/1950 | See Source »

Scripted and directed by Joseph L. (A Letter to Three Wives) Mankiewicz, All About Eve is probably Hollywood's closest original approach to the bite, sheen and wisdom of high comedy. It crackles with smart, smarting dialogue. Sometimes at too earnest length, but mostly with wit and always with insight, it jabs at the quirks and follies of show business and its "concentrated gatherings of neurotics, egomaniacs, emotional misfits and precocious children." It matches some penetrating characterizations with top-drawer acting. With all these merits, plus a full-blooded story, the picture is absorbing enough to ride over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Oct. 16, 1950 | 10/16/1950 | See Source »

News. In Bloemfontein, Union of South Africa, a balky lion that had refused to move into its new cage at the Bloemfontein zoo scrambled right in when an attendant gave its tail a hard bite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 25, 1950 | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

...Parade's End Ford tried, like Tolstoy in War and Peace, to bite off and somehow chew a massive chunk of social history. It was Ford's belief that the industrial revolution had broken the back of the traditional England and that World War I had given the coup de grâce. In the struggles and frustrations of one Christopher Tietjens (a name almost as un-English as Hueffer), Ford tried to express the gradual destruction of a way of life for which (as Ford Student Robie Macauley puts it) "the world is an equable and logical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Uncle Toby on Kanchenjunga | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

...held a record-breaking 977-pounder, heaviest tuna ever taken on a rod & reel (old record: 927 Ibs.). Commander Hodgson, 49, a fisherman in the best tradition, claimed he had seen an even bigger one that day. Said he: "It just wouldn't bite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Good Catch | 9/18/1950 | See Source »

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