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...title is all-important. More than one-fourth of all moviegoers buy tickets without knowing anything about the feature except its title. (Example: with an almost identical theme, two titles registered at opposite poles on A.R.I, popularity tests: Hitler's Children was a beauty; The Master Race, a dud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A. P. & Want-to-See | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

Last week he had an extraordinary session with his Administration leaders in Congress. The price bill they brought him -after the fizzle of Senator "Pappy" O'Daniel's eight-hour filibuster-was, by their own admission, a dud but they agreed: it was the best that could be had. At least, it saved rent controls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Price Gamble | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

...Frau Kube's twelve swine was a brown-haired, blue-eyed girl named Galya Mazanik. In the chamber where Commissioner Kube slept alone, innocent-looking Galya planted a mine one September evening in 1943. It was a dud. Back she went, this time tossed in a hand grenade. It worked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Servant Problem | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

...with abusing a martinet's privileges. But when the sergeant talks it over with his lieutenant (ex-star Lieut. Col. David Niven), you begin to realize just how much wisdom sometimes lies behind systematically rigid discipline. The sergeant's conclusion: "We haven't got a dud there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 28, 1945 | 5/28/1945 | See Source »

...Moore and Dick Powell all astraddle it and spurring like mad, gallops through some handsome Technicolored Arizona landscapes and fetches up nowhere in particular. Originally, Paramount planned a film about the Calgary Stampede. What emerges is a complicated musical involving a show girl (Dorothy Lamour) whose father owns a dud silver mine, a counterfeiter (Victor Moore) who looks like a snide old deacon, and a young fellow (Dick Powell) who can't decide just how honest is honest enough. Toothy Cass Daley, the pauper's Beatrice Lillie, may tickle groundlings. For others there is a very shrewd little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 10, 1944 | 1/10/1944 | See Source »

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