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...masterpiece of mush. A color-drenched $4,000,000 cinemadaptation of Daphne du Maurier's best-seller laid in 17th-Century England (TIME, Feb. 2, 1942), it offers male cinemaddicts little for their money except innumerable coyly brazen veilings and half-unveilings of Joan Fontaine's Restoration bosom, and a startling scene in which Miss Fontaine, alone in a dress-parade nightgown, frisks and flops about on her marshmallowy bed like a titillated tarpon. But to judge by the gasps, oofs, titters and low moans of the audience which stuffed Manhattan's Rivoli Theater on the opening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CURRENT & CHOICE: New Picture, Oct. 9, 1944 | 10/9/1944 | See Source »

...There's something horrible in the world," said Spinster Margaret to her bosom friend, Spinster Emily, as they sat together in their snug, rich home in the suburb of Wedgewood. "It's these dreadful new ideas. They want to destroy everyone who has a little something, a little education, a little breeding." Then she stroked Emily's hair. "Pretty grey hair," she said, "we're getting old together." After a moment she added: "Have you ever noticed how older men prefer young girls?" "Sensible men don't," Emily replied a little coldly. "I know, dear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Up in Maggie's Room | 9/18/1944 | See Source »

...Tinkling Bosom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 4, 1944 | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

Through their puppet, Wang Ching-wei, the Japanese still hope to make a separate peace with some group within the Chungking Government. "They hope to split China away from union with America and England, and, as they say, 'to return China into the bosom of East Asia.' They try to buy defeatists, capitulationists and appeasers, acting under the guise of promising the 'independence and sovereignty of China.' They seek indefatigably to sharpen China's inner discord and arouse civil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: The Bear's Paw | 7/31/1944 | See Source »

...myself, I am fighting because it is a job to be done, because my Government . . . has commanded me, because I am too cowardly in the face of public opinion to do otherwise. So I too might say that I am fighting to get back home to the bosom of my little family, and that the peace is already lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 15, 1944 | 5/15/1944 | See Source »

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