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...wife, one evening last week, left their home in a working-class neighborhood of East Los Angeles, crossed town and stepped into the glare of a Hollywood premiére. After 13 years of a shadow career filled with aliases and under-the-desk assignments, Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo was also stepping into the open. He had written the picture, Exodus, under his own name; and on the blacklist that had featured him for so long, the print was quickly fading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: Out of the Shadow | 1/2/1961 | See Source »

...James Dalton Trumbo was born in Montrose, Colo.; his father was variously a shoe salesman and a beekeeper, his mother a Christian Scientist who did constant battle with the school board to make sure that no one vaccinated her son. "I was surrounded with the atmosphere of dissent," he remembers, with the air of a man who has used the story before to point his moral. "My Southern grandmother, burning with hateful memories of the Yankee invasion, dissented from the Union until she died. My grandfather joined with the dissent of the Populists, then with the dissent of Bryan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: Out of the Shadow | 1/2/1961 | See Source »

...slovenly (though heartfelt) book on which it is based, seems an amazing achievement: clear, intelligent, subtle, witty, swift, strong, eloquent. Ironically, the script is bringing Hollywood embarrassment as well as riches. It is the work of a well-known, long jobless member of the Fifth Amendment fringe named Dalton Trumbo, who was also responsible for the brilliant scenario of Spartacus (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 19, 1960 | 12/19/1960 | See Source »

...four London general hospitals. Dr. Dalton questioned 84 female accident victims (age range: 15 to 55), all of whom had normal, 28-day menstrual cycles. Her findings: 52% of the accidents occurred to women who were within four days, either way, of the beginning of menstruation. On a purely random basis, the rate would have been only 28.5% for the same eight days. Childless women, noted Dr. Dalton, appear to be abnormally accident-prone just before menstruation, while women who have borne children are vulnerable over the whole premenstrual and menstrual period...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dangerous Days | 11/28/1960 | See Source »

Premenstrual and menstrual lethargy relaxes judgment and slows reaction time, said Dr. Dalton. "These findings," she concluded, "cause one to consider the wisdom of administering tranquilizers for premenstrual tension, which may well increase accident-proneness at the most dangerous time of the menstrual cycle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dangerous Days | 11/28/1960 | See Source »

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