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...hours before the U.N. was scheduled to meet on the China issue, John McCormack rose to present a resolution to the House. It was blunt and to the point: "The United Nations should immediately act and declare the Chinese Communist authorities an aggressor in Korea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: To The Point | 1/29/1951 | See Source »

...professional fighting man returned from Korea last week and blurted a professional's blunt views of the difficulties and frustrations involved in a United Nations police action. "I applaud the United Nations aims and ideals," said the Air Force's Major General Emmett ("Rosie") O'Donnell, "but it makes a poor strategic headquarters from which, to fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: Hangar Talk | 1/29/1951 | See Source »

Sale's blunt talk echoed far beyond the high-ceilinged Royal York Hotel ballroom. Within a few days he received more than 100 applauding letters from private citizens. One of them, from a retired political leader, said: "This is the speech the people of Canada have been waiting for. It sharpens the sense of our peril and our shame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Facing the Facts | 1/29/1951 | See Source »

...York, a blunt physical culturist submitted his candidates for the ten most beautiful women in America "if they would only lose ten pounds." Among them-Cinemactress Jane Russell, "four inches too big through the pectoralis muscles, both major and minor"; Actress Denise (Pardon Our French) Parcel, "one of the sexiest figures ever to grace our shores, but she's still ten pounds too sexy"; Tallulah Bankhead, "too much around the rectus abdominis region"; Anne (Kiss Me, Kate) Jeffreys, "a reduction in the gluteus muscles, both maximus and medius, is indicated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Chosen Few | 1/8/1951 | See Source »

...seems commonplace, passionless, unbreathed upon. King Lear contains half a dozen roles stamped with Shakespeare's maturest genius. But the production is a tangle of acting styles-an Edmund sinuous as an Oriental dancer, a Goneril straight out of melodrama; perhaps only Martin Gabel's blunt, forthright Kent keeps its outline. Round the play's great lonely poetic peaks roar the cold winds of human evil and malign fate, the bleak message that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Four of a Kind | 1/8/1951 | See Source »

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