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...Humphrey-Lehman bill has a formidable hurdle however--the Senate Judiciary Committee, Pat McCarran, chairman. The Committee has already sent the McCarran bill to the Senate with its blessing. Once in this lion's den, the Humphrey-Lehman bill will be roughly treated, if treated at all. Only a real understanding of the benefits of an intelligent immigration policy will save...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Lion's Den | 3/27/1952 | See Source »

...like laundry in a high wind. Moments later, while Douglas and Lindfors were waltzing soulfully inside a cozy restaurant, they were abruptly doused with a thick flurry of snow. Hustling his lady through the blizzardy streets, where the cornmeal snow fell on cue, Douglas swept her into his bachelor den. As they shed their coats, snow cascaded to the floor. Next morning, when they came downstairs, the room was still snowy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Snow Job | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

After sticking up a New Orleans gambling den for $100,000, Joan finds that everything is going black. She heads for the eye clinic of a Hoosier Dr. Kildare (Dennis Morgan). While he is simultaneously stitching together Joan's optical nerves and surrendering his heart, her gun pals are killing cops, slugging each other and fretting about what Joan's up to. Gangster Brian, who seems to regard her with a proprietary eye, decides to go gunning for Surgeon Morgan. He comes to his destined end by crashing through the glass canopy of an operating room after being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 11, 1952 | 2/11/1952 | See Source »

...tickling. Groucho takes excellent care of himself: he plays golf, never has more than two drinks at a party, and always leaves at midnight, even parties where he is the host. His only excess is cigars. One of his favorite occupations is sit ting for long hours in his den strumming Gilbert & Sullivan (at which he is an expert) on his guitar. He is also an expert on the novels of Henry James. Having had hardly any for mal education, Groucho, by dint of greedy reading, has made himself a well-read man. His friends are endlessly amazed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personality | 12/31/1951 | See Source »

...story takes place in an 18th Century château, where even the secret panels have secret panels, where Boris Karloff keeps the keys to the dungeons, and evil servants slink about among torture contraptions apparently devised by some medieval Rube Goldberg. Lording it over this den of vipers, slobbering over great platters of mutton, and fondling his foul schemes, sits Seigneur Laughton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 17, 1951 | 12/17/1951 | See Source »

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