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Any Number Can Play (MGM) sets out to prove that gambling is a true test of character. If it is, the hero (Clark Gable) is pure gold. Owner of a legal gambling establishment, Gable is devoted to his wife (Alexis Smith) and his only son Paul (Darryl Hickman). He potters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 25, 1949 | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

This CVA, as the Administration sees it, would take over the power-and-flood-control operations of a fistful of such federal agencies as the Army Engineers and the Department of the Interior. It would coordinate these activities into a pattern that is now significantly lacking in the Columbia Valley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More Power to the CVA | 4/21/1949 | See Source »

Love In May. Beau James is the Walker story as told by Gene Fowler, whose biographies of other gifted scapegraces (John Barrymore in Good Night, Sweet Prince; Manhattan Lawyer William Fallon in The Great Mouthpiece; Denver Publishers Bonfils and Tammen in Timber Line) were bestsellers. Fowler writes of "the good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mr. New York | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

As for the men, the student attitude is apparently mirrored in the mind of Dean Bender, who maintains that the 'Cliffedweller of today is a better-looking number than her mother or aunt of 20 years ago. The inclusion of girls in lectures, while perhaps discomfiting the monitoring system, has...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: Joint Instruction Flourishes in First Year | 5/6/1948 | See Source »

There has been a lot of ink spilled over the grandeur of the Missa. Bulbous-headed little men have gone around spreading the misconception that the Missa isn't really a mass at all, much less a dirty old Catholic mass. Catholic masses are supposed to be sung in monotones...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Music Box | 4/28/1948 | See Source »

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