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Cocked Pistol. But the trustbusters have not relented in their war on A & P. They are now trying to force A & P to get rid of its non-retail subsidiaries and to sell its seven retail divisions to separate owners-trying, in short, to divest the Hartfords of their empire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red Circle & Gold Leaf | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

The Decisions. He was old and he looked feeble, and gossip spread that he couldn't handle his work. His aides knew better: the spare, grey-thatched, droop-mustached old man was a stern and shrewd martinet, who could lay about him with a shaking crooked finger and a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: The Short Adventure | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

Through a crooked shyster (Wallace Ford), he makes a deal with a smuggler to carry eight Chinese into the U.S., runs into a double cross that forces him to kill the smuggler and dump his passengers onto a Mexican beach. Then Morgan's troubles multiply until they drive him...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 25, 1950 | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

"Th' nex' mornin' they try t' hang th' torpedoin' on me, but the [crooked] beak gets th' office, an' comes down. He goes f'r me, puts me on th' bricks, an' hands me two grand an' tells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A College Is a Prison | 7/31/1950 | See Source »

The rifle, a perfect one-in-a-thousand specimen of the 1873 Winchester (.44-40), is won by James Stewart in a shooting match. Then it is stolen by his brother (Stephen McNally), who is being hunted down by Stewart for the murder of their father. Before the hunt ends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 19, 1950 | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

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