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Mother Hubbard is a gentle creature-all she does is to furnish son Ben with a blackmailing stranglehold on his tyrannical father. Son Oscar is just a born ninny; he tries hard to be a stinker but he hasn't the talent. But the other three would make a quarrelsome day in a bear pit look insipid. Now & then, as they shift grips on each other and set-to all over again, their unmitigated hellishness comes very near absurdity. But they are never undramatic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 31, 1948 | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

Columbia's baseball team is nestling right beside the Crimson in the cellar of the Eastern League this morning. By nightfall, one of the two will be all alone, for Dolph Samborski's nine opens its two-game weekend trip at Morningside Heights this afternoon. Army will furnish tomorrow's fare...

Author: By Charles W. Balley, | Title: Godin, Connolly Will Face Columbia, Army | 5/7/1948 | See Source »

...audience settled down to enjoy at least a good laugh. This little scarecrow figure who closed the score before he started to play looked as if he might furnish some fun. But by the end of Act I, they were on their feet, cheering. At 19, Arturo Toscanini had won his first ovation as a conductor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Perfectionist | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

...fight; they forfeited the bonds in court. The Ledger-Enquirer management piously promised "not [to] abate its pursuit of full justice. . . ." But it apparently took the word of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation that it would be "impossible" to win the case "since [the Klan] would be able to furnish approximately 175 witnesses against the newspaper reporters." At week's end, City Editor Joe Hall quit in disgust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Klan Wins | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

MacArthur's only political activity of the week was to furnish a new picture of himself taken at a Tokyo airport (see cut). For his backers, that was enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: The Gleaners | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

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