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...ultraviolet-ray machine? Cautioned the University of Wisconsin's Dr. William Hendrickson: "The chances are one in a million that you'd hit it right if you started out to create a new starting material for cheese." His conclusion: Knight, like the shepherd boy, was "darn lucky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Laboratory Cheese | 1/4/1954 | See Source »

...base after every mission that kept the boys flying. Except for a few routine shots of some gleaming Sabres, the film is devoted to a lot of thick talk about getting to bed early and to some aggressively cheerful gynecologic humor: "Oh, morning sickness the whole darn day"; "There's nothing wrong with me that three, more months won't cure." The Cinecolor is something to see-all the blondes look like redheads, and the redheads are purple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

...Katherine Grayson helps to hide her usual insipid manner. If she is not spirited enough to be a convincing shrew, however, she does seem ill-tempered while kicking about the stage in "I Hate Men." As Kate's younger sister, bombastic Ann Miller is wisely given the song, "Too Darn Hot." And in the show-within-a-show, Miss Miller taps through "Tom, Dick, and Harry," one of those songs typical of Porter--unimportant in his score, good enough to be a show-stopper anywhere else. Regrettably, Miss Miller must share. "Always True to You in My Fashion...

Author: By Arthur J. Langguth, | Title: Kiss Me, Kate | 11/27/1953 | See Source »

This week the Brownell revelation continued to produce news as ex-Diplomat Braden said he did indeed get his copy of the first FBI report. While he recalled no references to White in the report, Braden said: "I darn well took care that anyone mentioned . . . was not in my office. The White part would have been up to the Secretary of the Treasury and the President . . . There were a flock of Communists in the Government then, and my guess is that there are today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: A Spy in the Treasury | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

...INSANE-COSTS U. S. $450,000. For three days, the front page emphasized the attack, quoting Senators like McClellan saying things like "If the army, navy and defense departments do not know how to counteract Soviet propaganda without hiring a bunch of college professors, this defense establishment is in darn bad shape in my opinion." Such quotes were not published in other papers, indicating Kelso had obtained them on his own. The Research Center's side of the story was not published in the Post, and the decision of the Air Force to let Harvard complete the project...

Author: By Milton S. Gwirtzman, | Title: Post Joins McCarthy Crusade | 10/27/1953 | See Source »

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