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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high school boy and a war bride in France in 1918 who do not find the words of the contemporary ditty to be the case at all. The young woman (Michelene Presle), married to a soldier she does not love, becomes deeply and passionately involved with an adolescent (Gerard Phillipe), and around their clandestine romance is spun the action of the finest French film this reviewer has seen...

Author: By Roy M. Goodman, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 11/29/1949 | See Source »

...mured, 'This is the most wonderful thing that's ever happened to me.' "When I returned to New York I got in touch with the Playwrights' Company who, after listening to my story, looking at the paintings, and reading the TIME article, immediately commissioned Gerard Sekoto to do a poster for the play - and in addition, began to make arrangements for the theater-lobby exhibit of Sekoto paintings of his native land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 24, 1949 | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

Whirling Discs. But Kant's hypothesis was not entirely discarded by astronomers. Recently, armed with a vast amount of detailed knowledge that Kant did not possess, modern astronomers have busied themselves reconsidering his theory and plugging holes in it. Last week, in a Chicago lecture, Astronomer Gerard P. Kuiper of the University of Chicago presented bis own neo-Kantian hypothesis. Basing his reasoning on hydrodynamic data, Kuiper concluded that the cloud around the nascent sun passed through a stage with about one-third of the system's matter forming a thin, pancake-shaped disc like the rings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: In the Beginning | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...Wilson's turn to get the same small, 50-year button that, as president, he had pinned on so many other G.E. oldtimers. Last week, at a small banquet in Manhattan's Hotel Pierre, Old-timer Wilson got it from ex-G.E. President Gerard Swope. Then Charlie Wilson took a long, hard look at the past and the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Tell 'Em | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...Voices. Paris hadn't been easy. Sekoto couldn't afford a studio, painted instead in his small, airless hotel room, laying his canvases on the floor where a small square of light fell. Three weeks ago he began hearing accusing voices repeating "You're no good, Gerard. Your painting is no good." To escape the voices, he tried to drink poison, hang himself. Friends rescued him, sent him off to the asylum of Ste. Anne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Touring Africans | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

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