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...seems that TIME is confusing Sir Thomas with Thomas Moore, the national poet of Ireland (1779-1852), whose favorite dish was corned beef . . . Sir Thomas More was a vegetarian from shortly after he entered Oxford to the extent that he eschewed flesh, fish and fowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 3, 1948 | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

...Those Dirty Rats." It went off with a bright flash and a stunning roar just as Reuther stood up, with a dish in his hand, to get some fruit salad from the refrigerator. Glass tinkled, the dish flew into a thousand pieces. Reuther spun, staggered and fell to the floor like a man who had been clubbed. For a second there was no more sound. Mrs. Reuther stood transfixed. Reuther lay on his back, industriously trying to move his bloody right arm and deciding, with the casualness of shock, that it had been blown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Who Shot Walter? | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

Withtman teams with Pratt, steadying the latter's flery game with his varied, cool attack. Brandt and Backe are the number one combo; Brandt hits, Backe saves the tough ones. The third duo of Ager and Bullard can dish up most any kind of shot from any position. Ager, once a baseliner, has surprised himself lately with net-work that he didn't know he had until Barnaby cajoled him into it. Bullard ties the climax shots onto Ager's game, and has lately been rounding out his play-which was formerly over-specialized...

Author: By Rubric J. Shortshot, | Title: Five Straight Victories Put Netmen Near Top | 4/28/1948 | See Source »

...harried bloodhound, Ray Milland is as surefooted as ever. Laughton falls to with relish on the great chunks of deep-dish villainy that the script feeds him. Elsa Lanchester (Mrs. Laughton, offscreen) does a good bit of broad comedy as an emancipated artist with four children and no husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Apr. 19, 1948 | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

Vincent Brandt and Captain Ted Backe are the core of Barnaby's ripening fruit, Brandt is a hard hitter, Backe steady and versatile, and as a doubles due they can dish up about any kind of return from any position, reports Barnaby...

Author: By R. JOHNSON Shortlidge, | Title: Netmen Strong After Double Fault to Tarheels, Davidson | 4/7/1948 | See Source »

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