Word: cards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...month by month choices (some of which appear on this page with their illustrations) make up the calendar-card we are sending this year to people who will receive gift subscriptions to TIME. Perhaps they will remind you of favorite TIME stories of years past-just as this Christmas issue of TIME, with its account of how Americans and others are moving into the Christmas of 1949, may recall our Christmas stories of other years...
...Critic. In Tecumseh, Mich., miffed by an "E" on his school report card, an eight-year-old tried to set fire to his school building...
...hand. But the red, contrasted with the dirty gloom of the rest of the picture, was enough; it made Journey one of the most moving canvases in the show. Edmund Lewandowski had chosen the Three Kings for a subject, and turned the Magi into a composite playing card. The result was not as handsome as real playing cards, but it had style and force...
...France's Edouard Goerg, for pictures that most critics thought inferior. Goerg's Nativity with Birds was as stickily sweet as creme de menthe and appeared to have been sloshed on with a spoon. It did, however, look like something that people would buy in a Christmas card. Conway's Mother and Child lacked even that advantage; it was an all-but-indecipherable tangle of syrupy colors and tricky, scratch-and-patch textures without visible sentiment of any kind. Conway, who golfs about as well (in the high 70s) as he paints, had clearly taken great pains...
...plays a foil for Bing Crosby. In this film, a Paramount re-release, Crosby's voice and hairline are still intact. He sings an excellent selection of Irving Berlin tunes--"Easter Parade," "Be Careful, It's My Heart," and, of course "White Christmas." The result is like a greeting card: it has no art and no subtlety, but it's pleasant...