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These are among the fresher things that Double Muscadine has to say. The rest of the 335 pages reveal (in the words of the jacket) how "Martha ... a mere slip of a girl. . . began to learn the things about her husband that so many Southern women in slavery days had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Dash of King's Yellow | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

In Manhattan, Lady Rothermere, handsome wife of the London Daily Mail's publisher, gravely discussed a particularly distressing shortage in austere England: "The days of the old English butler are finished," she told Manhattan Gossipist Charles Ventura. The time has passed when young footmen, who normally graduate to butlerhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Just Deserts | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

In the first days of Overlord, the members of the sth crash ashore in France, and death begins its steady tithing. Corporal Shuttleworth dies with a snigger: "The cow, she'll get my pension." Major Maddison, leading a rash reconnaissance into disastrous ambush, is shot by one of his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Life & Death of a Battalion | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

In "Wake of the Red Witch" Republic Pictures has done everything possible-to make these critics sublimely happy. The picture oozes tragedy from every pore. Nothing, but absolutely nothing, turns out right. The hero, that usually indestructible character, blunders into a hopeless jam and ends his days being squeezed into...

Author: By George G. Daniels, | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

Director Ford was apparently trying to develop a muscular yarn about the effect of innocence and helplessness on man's wickedness. Three escaping bank bandits, in Technicolor, stumble across a woman in childbirth, stranded in a covered wagon during a sandstorm. The crooks, all 15-minute eggs, immediately begin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 7, 1949 | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

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