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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have long relished your movie reviews. . . . The brilliant article on Treasure of Sierra Madre [TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 23, 1948 | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

Victory at Montreal. An austere, hard-driving administrator, Sir Oliver was brought up under the stern eye of his theologian father, made a brilliant record at Oxford and stayed on to become a don and dean of Queen's College. He was a professor of moral philosophy at Glasgow when he was drafted into the Ministry of Supply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Accent on Facts | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

Rough and frequent outbursts of temper, a goal apiece for Eliot's Fred Ecker. Bert Van Ingen, and George O'Neill, and a crowded penalty box marked the fracas. As for the hockey prowess displayed, it was dubbed "not particularly brilliant" by unanimous consent of both teams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot, Lowell, Funster Win In House Tilts | 2/20/1948 | See Source »

...very seldom that the direction of a theatrical performance is so very brilliant, so perfect that it shines through the individual characterizations and through the play itself. Such was the case last night at the Colonial, where the skillful hand of Director Peter Ashmore was even more prominent than the oh-so Shavian phrases of G.. B. Shaw and the excellences of the acting. Mr. Ashmore showed himself to be a master of style, to have a fine sense of movement, and to understand completely and sympathetically the temperament of the piece and the period with which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: You Never Can Tell | 2/17/1948 | See Source »

Past & Present. It begins with an essay on Byzantine art and history, goes on to discuss the crowns of the Visigoth kings, "the most wonderful relics of the barbaric art," moves on to a thorough examination of medieval hunting, proceeds to a brilliant essay on Picasso, followed by a brief recollection of London literary and artistic life after World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Prose for Convalescents | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

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