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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite his favorable forecast, Samborski has been plagued with troubles since practice began Besides the usual problem of having too many men to watch and too little time in which to choose, Samborski has been unable to see his men in action outdoors more than twice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LINING THEM UP | 4/10/1951 | See Source »

Target Unknown (Universal-International) models itself on one of World War II's most entertaining U.S. Army training films, Enemy Interrogation. Like the original, it shows how a guileful German intelligence might have plucked scraps of information from many captured U.S. flyers and pieced them into a forecast of Allied plans that the captives themselves knew nothing about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 26, 1951 | 3/26/1951 | See Source »

...aboard equipped with loudspeakers, movie films, picture books, boogie-woogie records. From Accra, the capital, they beat through the bush for six weeks, covering 22,000 miles and 1,300 settlements. Usually the lecturers were welcomed with calabashes of palm wine, especially when word got around that they could forecast wedding dates for the girls. Here & there villagers greeted them with stones, for a rumor had also got around that the vans were after taxes or conscripts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOLD COAST: Election--and Jubilee | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

...Civil War western was probably inevitable. The sustained box-office appeal of such Civil War epics as The Birth of a Nation and Gone With the Wind is part of Hollywood's folklore. Westerns, popular since early silent days, are still steady moneymakers. The latest trend was forecast last spring by MGM's The Outriders, in which Confederate Joel McCrea escaped from a Yankee prison camp, took to bushwhacking over broad stretches of western scenery. Then came 20th Century-Fox's Two Flags West (Confederate prisoners of war sign up to fight Indians), Warner's Rocky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 4, 1950 | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

...unfinished percentiles found on the desk of Mud, the man who forecast a sweeping victory for Landon in 1936, indicated that today's score would box. HARVARD 20 YALE...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mud, Upset Over Reputation, Vanishes; But Local Win Seen | 11/25/1950 | See Source »

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