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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over a year he shifted from town to town, usually in the rugged, desolate mountain country around Hsingsien. By last fall, he was in Shichiachuang, the Reds' administrative center on the western edge of the rich North China plain. Then, following the Red army's advance, he returned home to his Yenan cave. His popularity among his followers was greater than ever. Everywhere Mao went, his words were noted down by breathless disciples. Some observers feel that Mao is getting too popular-and too powerful-for his own good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Man of Feeling | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

...least part of the cloud is below freezing, the dry ice will not work. Another mistake: using too much dry ice. A few pounds per mile are usually enough. If the plane dumps too much, too many ice particles are formed. They are so light that they do not fall. The overdose of dry ice merely turns the cloud of water droplets into a cloud of floating ice crystals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Wringing Out the Clouds | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

Actress Bergman is all for Rossellini's non-Hollywood method. If she can begin he picture in April, it will probably be released next fall. Meanwhile, Rossellini is quietly turning down all Hollywood offers. Says he: "I am not one who says Hollywood is terrible . . . Hollywood is a great place. It is like a sausage factory that turns out fine sausages. I go back to Italy where I have freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Life in a Sausage Factory | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

...Ford (The Informer, The Long Voyage Home), Producer Merian C. Cooper (The Long Voyage Home, Fort Apache) and Scripters Laurence Stallings (What Price Glory) and Frank S. Nugent (Fort Apache). The finished product gives the viewer the kind of shock he might get from seeing all the Flying Wallendas fall off the high wire at once. Godfathers is close to being an unintentional parody on the old-fashioned western...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 7, 1949 | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

...feeling that Johnny Gunther will die this weekend." Johnny did die, of a brain tumor that more than a dozen doctors had fought unsuccessfully for 15 months. Johnny was only 17, a tall, good-looking, skinny kid who had graduated from Deerfield Academy and planned to enter Harvard that fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Good Fight | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

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