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...years. From a theatrical standpoint, there were possibly reasons to explain the delay. For all its magnificent flashes of drama and snatches of poetry, The Duchess moves slowly, mounts uncertainly, lets its fire go out between quick, bright blazes. It lacks, too, the humanity that a Shakespeare could fuse with horror; Webster's tale of the rich, widowed young Duchess who remarries in secret, fearing her rapacious brothers' wrath, and is stalked and finally strangled by them, has an air of chill, a sense of night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Plays in Manhattan, Oct. 28, 1946 | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

...strike was orderly and well-mannered. The greatest hardship wrought was that on screen star Mary Martin. Stopping at the Savoy with her husband, pert Mary had to cook their dinner (canned chicken and coffee) on an electric plate. Said she: "We only blew out one tiny little fuse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Labor Trouble | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

...take full effect on August 20, their effectiveness will be measured not by their phraseology, not even by their three-man administration, but only by the willingness of the buying public to back up a bill that was designed for its protection. With or without government price control, the fuse on inflation is sputtering behind the customer's back, ready to lead up to a boom which will very literally leave the public "bust" unless it turns around and takes preventive action...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Caveat Emptor | 7/30/1946 | See Source »

...Atom. The five rings got: samples of uranium, information on radar, the Asdic detector and the VT-proximity fuse. But the Russians did not get what they wanted most: the know-how of the atomic bomb. The reason was simple. Said the report: "There was no one in Canada who had that information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE DOMINION: Five Red Rings | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

...followers shouted a new slogan: 'Hamara atom bomb Qaid-i-Azam"-The Great Leader is our atom bomb. But the fuse was a little slow; the bomb had not gone off, and it looked at last as if India might achieve independence without civil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Ham | 6/17/1946 | See Source »

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