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On his Sunday night broadcasts Columnist Walter Winchell likes to pass out hot tips on stocks to his millions of listeners. Last week some of the heat was on Columnist Winchell himself. In Washington SEC investigators were checking to see if cunning speculators in Florida, where Winchell vacations, had used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: Those Winchell Tips | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

Oldtime Musicomedy Star Frank Elgin (Bing Crosby) has courted defeat for nearly a decade by mixing self-pity and the bottle. He is, as his wife says, a "cunning drunkard," and he camouflages his self-destructive path with martyrdom on one hand and penitence on the other. His main trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 13, 1954 | 12/13/1954 | See Source »

How did all this come to pass? Indo-China was a place where the grand antagonisms of the 20th century met, joined and clashed: colonialism, nationalism, Communism interacted violently upon one another. Sometimes such cataclysms throw up one forceful man. or he seizes a ready opportunity. But Indo-China was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDO-CHINA: Land of Compulsory Joy | 11/22/1954 | See Source »

The script puts Father Brown (Alec Guinness) up to his usual trick of bringing a criminal not to the judicial bar but to the communion rail. His prospective proselyte : a famous international crook called Flambeau (Peter Finch). The cunning old fisher of men lets the devil bait the hook-with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 15, 1954 | 11/15/1954 | See Source »

The fourth Crusade was turned-by the cunning of its Venetian outfitters and the headlong cupidity of the expeditionaries -into a campaign against Christians. The Crusaders wound up sacking invitingly weak Constantinople, until then the greatest Christian city on earth.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Holy Wars | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

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