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Dates: during 1940-1949
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None of the witnesses, said he, could have taken a picture. They had been gone over by the jail's $7,000 "inspectoscope," and with its X-ray beam it would have either detected the hidden camera or, at least, fogged its film. (City Room gossip was that Photographer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Death-House Hullabaloo | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Your just and discerning piece on the trial and execution of the Japanese General Yamashita [TIME, Nov. 7] is very commendable. This whole business is a black mark on American history. Those who, like me, were captives of the Japanese in Manila knew what was going on there and something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 28, 1949 | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

"This is my funeral," came a voice from a recording made four years before. "I am an atheist and have been for many years. I have the utmost contempt for theological nonsense. Clergymen are moral cowards. Miracles are a product of the imagination. If any four reporters were sent to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: A Perfectly Rational Funeral | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

Little did Cooper know what he was in for. The need to paint nothing in a know-nothing way grew on him day by day. He began getting up at 5 a.m. to start "work" on his pictures (abstractions done in watercolor, brown ink and pasted scraps of paper). To...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Anything Can Happen | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

But the incidentals are the best of all. Faced with scores of temptations to slip into patches or melodrama, the script escapes nimbly every time. Bits like the execution of a priest and the shooting game of the drunken German commandant acquire a power above their importance to the story...

Author: By David L. Ratner, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 11/8/1949 | See Source »

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