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...indeed America's deepest wisdom, many will put the book down with the feeling they are being fobbed off with the obvious and the sententious. The biggest giveaway is Lin's acceptance of the late Ray Stannard Baker in his role-under the pen name David Grayson-of a horny-handed outdoor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Chinese Babbitt | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

This shrewd journalist and Pulitzer Prizewinning biographer (Woodrow Wilson) in his peasant disguise is quoted more often than Lincoln. Santayana and Oliver Wendell Holmes, and just about as often as Franklin and Thoreau. Not many U.S. workers would go along with Grayson-Baker's ideas of the simple life: "Talk of joy: there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and homemade bread-there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Chinese Babbitt | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

...Them Stew." While fans tried to adjust to the latest milestone of the little girl who grew up so fast, the gossips tried to piece out fragments of feverish rumor. In Manhattan, Crooner Johnny Johnston, 33, stoutly denied any romantic involvement with Shirley. In Hollywood, his wife. Cinemactress Kathryn Grayson, 26, admitted that she had exchanged harsh words with Shirley about Johnston but, she added, all that was over now. Both Johnston and his wife accused Professional Golfer Joe Kirkwood Jr., 28, who plays Joe Palooka on the screen, of trying to brew a romance between Shirley and Johnston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Dignified Manner | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...first two touchdowns. Eddie Boyle sprinted 17 yards for the first and Willie Ross bucked over from the three for the second. Then, with four minutes left in the half, Bill Richardson went over his own right side, cut to the sidelines, and dashed 70 yards to a TD. Grayson Tate, who had converted his first two attempts, missed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Jayvees Suffer 46-0 Loss To Cadet Eleven | 10/16/1949 | See Source »

...usual, Pasternak begins with a pretty soprano (Kathryn Grayson) warbling an aria. An itinerant celebrity (Jose Iturbi) is beating the fake rosebushes for young opera stars. Tunneling into this setup is a manly young truck driver (Mario Lanza) who has just the bouncing good looks and tenor voice to team up with the soprano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 19, 1949 | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

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