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Helen Hayes stuck a hand into her deep freezer, pulled it out too late to avoid a smashed thumb when the lid banged down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: All in Good Time | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

Last week the museum put the mammoth's remains on display. The trunk, left front leg and part of the head were stuffed into an ordinary 8-cu.-ft. home freezer. Although the Russians have found whole mammoths in Siberia, these were the first frozen parts of a mammoth to be exhibited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Young Visitor | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

When a woolly mammoth died on the Siberian tundra, it sometimes fell into a quagmire. There the permafrost, operating like a modern freezer, preserved the carcass intact for thousands of years. In temperate New Zealand there was no permafrost but in South Island's Pyramid Valley paleontologists have found a good substitute. From about 18,000 B.C. until 2,-000 years ago, the valley contained a swamp whose lush vegetation attracted moas-great, flightless birds which weighed up to a quarter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Moa in Aspic | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

Diamond Lil (by Mae West; produced by Albert H. Rosen & Herbert J. Freezer) is probably the masterwork of the unversatile author of Sex, Pleasure Man, The Constant Sinner and Catherine Was Great. As a vehicle, at any rate, Lil remains after 21 years a good sturdy Mae Western. Too dated in 1928 to date much since, and so bad a play that it has considerable merit as a parody, Diamond Lil gives Miss West every chance to shoot the works, to be as majestically unrefined and unreformed as she knows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Play in Manhattan, Feb. 14, 1949 | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

Rope. Alfred Hitchcock's blood-freezer about two bright young men who murder for fun; with John Dall, Farley Granger and James Stewart (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Nov. 1, 1948 | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

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