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...Treasurer of the United States. A former actress, later a bank president and storekeeper in Richland, Kans., Mrs. Clark got her reward for political labors: $10,000 a year, use of a limousine, the pleasure of seeing her signature* on all U.S. folding money. ¶Received a new bow tie from a caller, Michigan's new Democratic governor, G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams, who had been given a whole box of them. The onetime haberdasher whipped off his four-in-hand, skillfully knotted the bow tie without looking in a mirror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Good-Will Week | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

...show of defiance and turned to the court for help. Said Judge Medina: "Answer the question." Loudmouthed Defense Lawyer Harry Sacher stood up and shouted "I advise him of his constitutional right to refuse." Judge Medina stonily intoned "I repeat my direction." Gates was defiant: "I would have to bow my head in shame and I could never raise my head in decent society if I ever became a stool pigeon. Even under the court's direction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Monstrosities & Martyrs | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

...drollery, along with the cartoons, and an advertisement announcing that the lampoon is offering a prize of 3 dollars "to the sophomore who stands lowest in the class at the end of the year without actually being expelled," are the only contributions to humor made this month by the Bow street rakes. There may, indeed, be some truth to the report that the idle clerks in Roger Kent have taken to "ghosting" for the Lampoon in lien of rent...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: On the Shelf | 6/7/1949 | See Source »

Acting in the movie as such is practically nil. Few club members knew bow to act which is fine. The way it turned out, characters are natural by necessity, especially so when they didn't know they were being filmed. This happened more than once to curious spectators who came over to watch the company "on location" in an around Boston...

Author: By Gene R. Kearney, | Title: Plans for Second Flicker Shape Up As Ivy Films Ends Successful Year | 6/7/1949 | See Source »

...Track of the Cat, Clark again busies himself with the question of evil, but he has switched from the cool clarity of Ox-Bow to a naive, sometimes murky symbolism that gets in the way of his essentially simple yarn. Again the scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Smothered Incident | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

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