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Miss Harrison, with notable help from mood-wise Cameraman Elwood Bredell, invests this grade-B plot with a lot of style and scare. Some of the dialogue is ham, and toward the end the picture's edginess blunts noticeably. But the bar and bartender, the damp night streets, a late-night elevated platform, and a jam session that looks like an expressionistic death dance, have a good deal of Hitchcock's sinister melo-realistic melancholy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 28, 1944 | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

...family's firstborn, she majored in Greek at Indiana U. (summa cum laude, '08), taught languages at Indiana's Manchester College after postgraduate philolo-gizing in Europe. She translated for the U.S. Government during World War I, took a law degree (1916) and shared the Elwood practice of her father, later worked in Ontario as a skilled bacteriologist. At the time of her death she headed the priorities section of United Aircraft's Bridgeport division...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 18, 1943 | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

With a field of 32 instead of the usual 64, last week's play at Forest Hills was concentrated in a busy six days instead of the usually poky ten. Pfc. Bitsy Grant went out the second day; Frank Parker and Lieut. Elwood Cooke, the third. By the end of the third round, ten of the twelve furloughing players had been eliminated. The two remaining servicemen remained to serve them up in the finals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Tars Take Over | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

Grocers & Grousing. In Elwood, Ind., Grocer Harrison Holmes listened to a customer complain for an hour about rationing, got a gun and shot him dead. In Hartford, Conn., Grocer Salvatore Viola announced that he was tired of his job. Said he: "I will quit and go pick dandelions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 15, 1943 | 3/15/1943 | See Source »

Keeping constant tabs, if necessary, on each locomotive and its load, Elwood's central control room will be able to do the right thing immediately in emergencies. The system saves money by eliminating block signals, with their miles of underground wire. A check on the system itself is provided by a white light in each cab, blinking every five seconds while the FM set is working, turning red if it goes haywire. The area of the Elwood plant is well within the range of perfect FM reception...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: FM & Defense | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

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