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...Chico, head of the working bandits, J. Carroll Naish does a fine eye-rolling caricature of the stock "Mexican general." He is greased-up, bulb-nosed, and hidden by eyebrows and mustache heavy enough to make a hair shirt. The dancers (Ricardo Montalban, Sono Osato, Ann Miller, Cyd Charisse) are easy to watch. The Technicolor makes the white horses and blue skies look wonderful, and most of the actors feverish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 29, 1948 | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...away his nose; his cheeks were raw; his eyelids, eyebrows and chin were gone; his mouth was crushed to an ugly, gaping gash. Some 25 operations and 3½ years later, Paul had recovered his face. Today, he and his young wife are running one of the most prosperous bulb farms in England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Man Who Makes Faces | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...fencing room has been provided with the study facilities and Watson said that another room will be set up if the demand warrants it. Following last year's recommendations, lights will be turned out at 10 o'clock, except for a dim, precautionary bulb overhead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Housing Squeeze Puts 200 in Gym | 9/23/1948 | See Source »

...driver tapped out a signal on the back door and an old lady let me into a room that looked like a set for a Hitchcock murder mystery - complete even to a single, weak, bare light bulb suspended from the ceiling and throwing weird shadows on the cracked walls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Sep. 20, 1948 | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

...gadget was as flashy as a jukebox, and paid off even better. It was called the "Spectro-Chrome." A 1,000-watt bulb was propped up in the back of it, shining through red, yellow, green, blue and violet panes of glass. The instructions that came with the box reflected sunny assurance: it would "measure and restore radioactive and radio-emitive equilibrium by attuned color waves." It would also cure all diseases that man is heir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Lights Out | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

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