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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Champion" loses the acid of Lardner's prose, although length is probably as much at fault as anything. It also indulges in a handful of coincidences and cliches that weaken an otherwise tight structure. Perhaps the most difficult problem facing a critic of this movie is its basic black-and-white. journalistic character: you can't get involved because the hero doesn't draw sympathy. Director Mark Robson has shaded the film impersonally and perfectly. It is a tribute to his direction that the one strong emotion the audience feels is the desire to haul Midge Kelly...

Author: By Charles W. Balley, | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/20/1949 | See Source »

Gripes in B.A. As Argentina's postwar trade boom slowed down (so far this year, exports are about one-third of 1948's), Dodero complained that the government's state-trading policies were at fault. Despite their long friendship, Perón paid him no heed. Instead, he made him a take-itor-leave-it offer to sell out to the government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Abdication of a Tycoon | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

German-born Novelist Thomas Mann, who once found grievous fault with German intellectuals for not fighting Naziism ("This monstrous German attempt at world domination ... is nothing but a distorted and unfortunate expression of that universalism innate in the German character"), had decided that the Russians were pretty nice people, really. "When I remember how I myself was influenced by Russian writers and Russian culture, I can't hate them," he said. "I believe [they] are fundamentally disinclined toward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 16, 1949 | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...point out that we are more optimistic for the Class of 1950 that you seem to be. On the basis of the competitions run off by the '49 staff, we have tried to give the '50 staff the best men available. If this is not the case, that fault is in part due to the talented men in the class who did not appear for the competitions. The '50 staff contemplates many changes in its Album in an effort to reestablish the efficiency and the prestige of the Album which has suffered through a period of post-war adjustment characterized...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Album Affairs | 5/10/1949 | See Source »

...unfortunate that the present "generation" of undergraduates has seen the Dramatic Club in its leanest years. The fault has not been with the group, with its leaders, or with the new competition given it by the HTW. The fault has been ultimately the University...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: From the Pit | 5/10/1949 | See Source »

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