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The City Is Dark (Warner) is a cops & robbers movie that captures some of the hard-hitting realism of the early-'30s gangster pictures. It spins a familiar yarn about a reformed ex-con (well played by Hoofer Gene Nelson in a nondancing role) whose past catches up with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 13, 1953 | 7/13/1953 | See Source »

Dr. Astin, an eminent physicist, took the stand and said that the "trace elements" were just impurities in the salts. But when Astin defended the bureau's findings on AD-X2, Committee Chairman Edward Thye, Minnesota's other Senator, pointed to a stack of orders for the battery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Alchemy of Batteries | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

Ritchie's stack of orders revealed that the additive was used in tinkling Good Humor wagons. Such hard-fisted businesses as the Gillette Co. and General Foods Corp. were satisfied AD-X2 customers. Engineers from industry, mechanics from the Army and Navy, battery salesmen, all praised the additive in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Alchemy of Batteries | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

Every Frenchman knows Calvados, the fiery Norman applejack, but few knew much about the man from Calvados. When Joseph Laniel rose in the tribunal of the National Assembly last week to make his bid to become Premier of France, he brought to that jaded assembly something of the freshness of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Man from Calvados | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

What visiting West German critics saw were rank upon rank of slavish, posterlike pictures and sculpture dedicated to tested propaganda themes. They bore such titles as World Youth Festivals, To the Patriot Philipp Müller,* The First Furrow for the Collective Farm, and the styles were all obedient, School...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Red Posters | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

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