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...homely-handsome woman with a slight stutter and great charm, married to an executive of the BBC. She and her husband, Alan Cameron, had a tall house facing London's Regent's Park. There, Novelist Bowen sat down deliberately to restudy her Irish background, her English foreground and the lives she knew as they settled into war. The first result was a long book, Bowen's Court, on the history of her family and the estate in Cork that they had owned since Cromwell's day. The second was a book of short stories. The third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Contemporary Treason | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

Tailback Chuck Roche tries his hand at squirming out of a rather complicated situation in the Holy Cross game. The chummy trio trying to dispose of him are: kicking, James Murphy, quarterback; kneeling, Bill Stetter, center; and standing, Walt Sheridan, left halfback. In the foreground, end Bob DiBlasio is also doing some graceful kicking, while churning up from behind are Chip Cannon and Paul O'Brien...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Too Many Cooks... | 11/2/1948 | See Source »

...foreground, a man is picketing. His sign says: Acme Will Be Unfair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Forecast | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...painting by the country's best-known "primitive" should look like. When Grandma paints a picture that seems not quite in character, her dealers sadly send it back. One such reject hanging over her mantel shows a sunset above a Western canyon, with a log cabin in the foreground. "What one likes," says Grandma philosophically, "another don't." Another of her favorite rejects is a storm scene, with black clouds lowering in a pink sky. "Dr. Kallir [one of her dealers] wants me to change it. He don't like pink. He just hasn't seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Grandma's Imaginings | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

...Naked City. The late Mark Hellinger's big, bright portrait of New York, with Barry Fitzgerald and the Homicide Squad in the foreground (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CURRENT & CHOICE: Cinema, May 3, 1948 | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

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