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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then, as if unwilling to end on so despairing a note, Director Akira Kurosawa tacks on a hopeful epilogue: the three men in the rain-drenched ruins discover an abandoned baby, and, by the unselfish act of volunteering to adopt the child, the woodcutter restores the priest's faith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 7, 1952 | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

The Pentagon sent its cold-weather team to Korea two months ago, before the first cold casualties began moving back to evacuation points. The team worked out a plan for two members to serve with each of the Army's mobile field hospitals, testing half a dozen new drugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: At War with Frostbite | 12/31/1951 | See Source »

Blunders & Bottlenecks. Inexplicably, the mobilizers' worst blunder was one which World War II experience should have made impossible. If World War II taught anything, it was the crucial importance of machine tools-the machines which make machines, and without which defense plants cannot tool up to make jet engines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Great Gamble | 12/31/1951 | See Source »

Toto's ragged flock takes such childlike joy in simple pleasures that its members naively pay admission to a charlatan for a view of the sunset, romp happily through a snake dance when they discover water gushing out of the ground. Then the gushers turn out to be oil...

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

The highly inventive fun of Miracle in Milan is simple enough for a child to enjoy, yet full of subtleties and sharp human insights that grownups can savor. In Miracle in Milan, says De Sica, "I was searching for the feeling of a small word that loves to hide everywhere...

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

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