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...supposing some years later this branch manager told you: "Mr. McCloy, I told you that my friend and his friends had a scheme all set up, as I have told you, with tear gas and guns and getaway car, but that was a lot of bunk. It just wasn't true. I told you a false story about my friend." Would you be a bit puzzled as to why he would tell you such a false story about his friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE OPPENHEIMER CASE | 6/28/1954 | See Source »

...passably handsome youth, in a slick, Valentino way, and he had a taste for good clothes. He got the second lead in a Broadway play, Swifty. His performance, Alexander Woollcott wrote, could be "mercifully described as inadequate." But gradually he learned. "There's an awful lot of bunk written about acting," he says. "But it isn't easy. You can't just make faces. If you make yourself feel the way the character would feel, your face will express the right things-if you're an actor. There are lots of things. How you walk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Survivor | 6/7/1954 | See Source »

Said White to reporters: "Young's victory statement is just some more pure bunk." But Young, unabashed and impatient, pressed on: "If these gentlemen had any consideration for the New York Central, they would concede our victory now and let us take over the railroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: New Hand on the Throttle? | 6/7/1954 | See Source »

...Gold: "An oily attempt to be ethical; treat instead of a treatment is an out-of-date pitch; poor delivery, little effort to give commercials any prestige; just bunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Easy on the Drawback | 5/31/1954 | See Source »

...turns out to be a sort of North African Calamity Jane, who rides off into the badlands, carves up a bandit chief, steals back some serum he has stolen, and so saves the country from a bubonic plague. In the end, of course, she wins the No. 1 bunk in the kaid's harem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Harem-Scare'em | 4/12/1954 | See Source »

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