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...titles in a trailer for a new movie were a "trifle too lurid." Another instructed a producer shooting in London not to use fog in any more scenes, "as it is very uneven." Still another suggested putting a new writer on a story in preparation: "It would be a four-or five-week job at the most, but as long as we have such a wonderful plot, let's get a good writer." Studio executives would add the new memos to sheaves that already included orders on casting and admonitions about make-up and wardrobe tests (one actress wore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: One-Man Studio | 6/12/1950 | See Source »

Already tested, this stove is a box three feet high and two feet square, capable of heating a four-or five-room house (if the circulation of heat takes care of itself). Using new types of air jets and flues, it burns soft coal, eats its own smoke, runs three days without stoking. Twenty-seven stove manufacturers expect to market it before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Smaller & Hotter | 8/21/1944 | See Source »

...field of contenders on a national scale for the Republican nomination in 1924 has narrowed to four-or rather, three and one-half. They are Calvin Coolidge, Hiram W. Johnson, William G. McAdoo and Oscar W. Underwood (half, because Mr. Underwood's activities are confined to the South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Field of Four | 12/24/1923 | See Source »

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