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Comes the Revolution. Author Liu approached Chinese Communism with an open but not a blank mind. He found that its pose was "liberation" but its practice was tyranny. The power that runs through his book is the high moral voltage an honest man always generates when he gives a straight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Behind Mao's Lines | 2/9/1953 | See Source »

Babe stalks the fairway with a conscious sense of theater. She flips king-size cigarettes into the air and catches them nonchalantly in her mouth, then lights her match with her fingernail. Her hawkish, sun-toughened face is frozen for the most part in a thin-lipped mask, but she...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personality, Feb. 2, 1953 | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

Meet Me at the Fair (Universal-International) spins a plot that is as insubstantial and as highly colored as cotton candy. It is a sentimental tale of a runaway orphan (Chet Allen), a singing medicine man (Dan Dailey) and a beautiful welfare worker (Diana Lynn). By the time the picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 1/26/1953 | See Source »

Through the years, Ase sows his fields with wheat and reaps stones in his bread. His mother goes completely mad. His two best friends, a pixy of an Irishman and an ugh-ly Indian, die while helping him. His eldest son butters political palms for crooked contracts, and his youngest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ase's Agonies | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

But his silence only dramatized the investigations being conducted simultaneously by the commission and a Brooklyn grand jury; all week long, the two groups pitchforked up vast, reeking chunks of long-buried evidence on the rackets which bleed a third of a billion dollars a year from the world'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Nine Hundred & Forty Thieves | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

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