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...London widower (Melvyn Douglas) falls in love with a sympathetic, war-weary A.T.S. girl (Phyllis Calvert). His son (Philip Friend), missing in action for several years, turns up wounded, bitter and a virtual stranger to the father. Son turns for understanding-and eventually for love-to father's fiancee. Before father can marry the girl, everyone gets into such a self-sacrificial mood that son's postwar maladjustment dissipates itself in noble dialogue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 28, 1949 | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

Bench & Bar. In Salt Lake City, the City Commission ruled that before City Judge Marcellus K. Snow could assume office, he would have to pay up his 37 back parking fines. In Harlan, Ky., Special Circuit Judge Cleon K. Calvert charged himself with public drunkenness, promptly ordered a $10 fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 24, 1949 | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

...Louis Ministerial Alliance sent St. Louis Symphony Conductor Vladimir Golschmann an indignant letter after discovering that he had posed as a Calvert "man of distinction." Said the Alliance: "We are amazed and deeply disappointed that you have seen fit to sell your reputation for . . . advertisement of a product so destructive to ... the morals of American youth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS .& MORALS: Americana, Dec. 20, 1948 | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

Leibowitz' advice on tactics so impressed Calvert Magruder, chief judge of the U.S. Circuit, Court of Appeals for the first circuit, who was presiding at the meeting, that he said, "If I were ever on trial for murder or rape, I would try to get Leibowitz as my attorney...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leibowitz Rounds Out Law School Workshop | 11/12/1948 | See Source »

Just after noon one day last week at Dower House, the vast 17th Century Maryland manse that once housed the Earls of Calvert and Baltimore, a telephone rang. The Washington Times-Herald was on the phone; an editor had a message for his boss. The butler and maid went to wake their mistress. They found her in her big bed, slumped over a book and an early edition of her paper. A heart attack had killed copper-haired Eleanor Medill Patterson, 63, the vain, shrewd, lonely, and lavishly spoiled woman who used a newspaper to speak her whims with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Cissie | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

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