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Life Sentence. The trouble often begins in the cradle, pediatricians and psychiatrists said, when an overanxious mother forces a full baby to take the last ounce of formula. Stuffing children through adolescence fixes a lifetime habit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fat & Unhappy | 6/23/1952 | See Source »

Houston's hard-drinking, risk-taking Oilman Glenn McCarthy has a habit of making comebacks just when things look blackest. Once, when he had gone $1,500,000 in the red, and a creditors' committee had taken over his affairs, he didn't even have the $20,000 needed to finish the mansion he was building. Then, from an oilman he scarcely knew, came a check for $50,000 and a note: "Pay me when you can." McCarthy finished his mansion and launched new oil explorations that made him millions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Never Say Die | 6/23/1952 | See Source »

...affidavit, Ingrid charged that Pia's father, Dr. Peter Lindstrom, "told me it delighted him to see me cry and suffer." Spluttered the doctor: "I don't want the child exposed to Rossellini. He ran away with the mother of my child. He seems to have a habit of living with mistresses while married to someone else. It has been quoted in the United States Senate that he is a drug addict. . ." From Rome, Rossellini shot off an outraged message to the Los Angeles judge, demanded a chance to counter Lindstrom's "calumnies." The judge gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Family Reunions | 6/16/1952 | See Source »

...shaking the foundations of many of Beverly Hills' swank shacks. The results can do the industry no harm. It has suffered a bad five years. Although slow to come back, this picture hints that its top technical skill, combined with some fresh imagination, will make the nation-wide habit of moviegoing once more a rewarding experience...

Author: By Lawrence D. Savadove, | Title: The Narrow Margin | 6/16/1952 | See Source »

...simple child of nature who likes to cuddle up with her pet fox. Just when she has settled down to a calm marriage with a parson (Cyril Cusack), along comes Squire David Farrar, a virile type, who whisks her off to his outsize estate. But Farrar has a crude habit of fox hunting, so Jennifer soon cools toward him. The ending is drenched in predictable melodramatics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 9, 1952 | 6/9/1952 | See Source »

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