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In a letter to the editors, a proud parent or doting grandparent will often enclose a picture of the small fry around the house mimicking the TiME-reading habit of the grownups. I thought that most of these pictures were mailed back, but recently we discovered that a researcher had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jul. 30, 1951 | 7/30/1951 | See Source »

In old Bogota, the customs of mourning were ironbound. Even within the last 20 years, mourning still meant black garments, closed doors, no music, no parties, no entertainment. This mode of life lasted for five years after the death of a spouse, parent or child; three years and six months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Mourning Becomes Shorter | 10/2/1950 | See Source »

"Green" Hungarians are subdivided into two main categories, "class aliens" and "class enemies." To belong to the first category, it is sufficient to have a parent or grandparent engaged in a "bourgeois" calling, e.g., merchant or doctor-in fact, any occupation at all except worker or peasant. Like the non...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: The Classless Society | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

Miss O'Hara's story of the son of Flicka, heroine of an earlier production, should by all rights have made fascinating movie fare. In the novel, as indeed in the picture, Thunderhead is an equine throwback to his outlaw grandparent. The story is of a rancher's son who...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 3/13/1945 | See Source »

Shadow of the Thin Man (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is more aptly titled than was meant. This fourth working of a once-rich lode comes up with very little pay dirt. Its great-grandparent, The Thin Man, made as a quickie seven years ago, grossed a million or so dollars and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Pictures | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

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