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...rape-murder and ends with Marlene Dietrich dying nobly for her fellow man. Director Fritz Lang has shaped his Technicolor western in the form of a cowboy ballad: the plaintive lyrics, sung by William Lee, set the stage for Arthur Kennedy's far-ranging manhunt of the foul fiend who dishonored and killed his sweetheart (Gloria Henry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 10, 1952 | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

...City, the other in Westchester, N.Y. What with dashing from one wife to the other, delivering lectures and churning out dime novels, he had little time for his favorite refuge-an Indian tent on the outskirts of Stamford, N.Y., where he wrote a tract titled "Woman as Angel and Fiend." He was also, he claimed, founder of the Order of the Sons of Temperance, vice president of the Patriotic and Benevolent Order of the Sons of America, and a pillar of the Order of Good Templars. When he relaxed his temperance so far as to be unable to churn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Buffalo Bill's Mentor | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

This is a selective gift for a selective camera fiend. Imported from Germany exclusively by the CRIMSON CAMERA EXCHANGE, at 1300 Massachusetts Avenue, this collapsible tripod grows from 8 1/4 inches high when folded to 45 inches when the seven sections are fully extended. It sells for $8.95, is light weight and easy to carry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Christmas: The Crimson Suggests . . . | 12/6/1951 | See Source »

...forgo them too. She manages to squelch his romance with a French singer (Paula Corday), and when she turns his paternal good-night kiss into something more heated, she makes Johnson recoil with the stunned horror of a man discovering that, deep down, he is an all-too-willing fiend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 3, 1951 | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

When the Tories preserve the health program (that invention of the arch-fiend, Bevan) intact, administer the nationalized industries with the zeal they have promised and point directly to rearmament as the cause of the recent slump in British recovery, the critics may calm down for a while. They will explain to their readers that the Conservatives just aren't like Midwest-ern Republicans, in spite of their name, and that the whole mess shows that once you vote in socialists, you're stuck with them forever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tory Triumph? | 10/27/1951 | See Source »

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