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...Calhoun is cast as John Burns, the Lisbon Clipper copilot who rescued her from the Tagus River after the crash and later married her. As a sort of composite of all nurses, Thelma Ritter plays a hardbitten, bighearted girl from Flatbush. Red-haired Susan Hayward, in the leading role, con vincingly matches her on-screen lip move ments to brunette Jane Froman's warm, vivacious singing voice on the sound track...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 7, 1952 | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

...York area customers are actually discouraged from installing electric stoves because Con Edison only brings the heavy-voltage lead-in as far as the property; the customer has to pay a private electrician up to about $150 to bring it the rest of the way in. Con Edison, selling both electricity and gas, makes no move to encourage a switch to electric cooking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: The Customer's Friend | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

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Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Highest Court Supports N.Y. Feinberg Law | 3/4/1952 | See Source »

...pair to keep her company while he was at sea, has since retired on the chinchilla income. A Connecticut tobacco grower took up chinchillas as a sideline, gave up his 7 5-acre tobacco farm when he began to net $20,000 a year on his animals. Pro & Con. But the breeders are careful not to make a large-scale test of the market for skins. Not for another five years or so will the U.S. chinchilla population be big enough (estimated as high as 6,000,000) for pelting. No one knows what will happen to prices then. Breeders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIAGE TRADE: Regal Rodents | 3/3/1952 | See Source »

America's Town Meeting (Sun. 6:30 p.m., ABC). "Should the U.S. Support the British in Egypt?" Pro: Ex-Ambassador to Israel James G. McDonald. Con: Egypt's Kamel Selim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Feb. 18, 1952 | 2/18/1952 | See Source »

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