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Chiang's air force, which has scored no previous spectacular success, stopped the Reds. Cloudless days & nights with a full moon helped his flyers play havoc with the Red supply lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Or Cut Bait | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...have given it everything a picture of this sort normally requires for success. Betty Grable is there to show off her pretty ankles and sing some nice tunes. Dan Dailey figures to de-emphasize Miss Grable's mediocre dancing with his own slick routines. The supporting cast of June Havoc, Jack Oakie, and James Gleason couldn't be any better. Gag specialists have written a few high-voltage boffs into the script and the whole thing is packaged in some real nice technicolor. These are the merits. In spots they give the picture color and vitality. Where it falls horribly...

Author: By George G. Daniels, | Title: The Moviegoer | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

...creature, "yellow as a plucked chicken," is a busybody who can "scent a private conversation as a cat scents fish." Her cheeks hideously rouged, her arms like drumsticks and her gown some 20 years behind the fashion, Tilly barges into the well-arranged life of Chipping Lodge to create havoc. Mrs. Brocken has invited her because she has a guilty recollection of having, in girlhood days, maliciously prevented Tilly from accepting the one marriage offer ever to come her way. Now, as recompense, quixotic Mrs. Brocken proposes to turn all her money over to poor, nasty Tilly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: No Fizz | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

...unexpected showers wreaked havoc with the Crimson lacrosse sticks; water shrunk the leather thongs in them and made accurate passing and shooting virtually impossible Still, at halftime the varsity...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Lacrosse Team Falls, 7-5 Before Late Yale Rally | 5/13/1948 | See Source »

Divorced. By Margaret Sullavan, 38, husky-voiced stage (Voice of the Turtle) and screen (Cry Havoc) star: third husband* Leland Hayward, 46, air-minded, airline-owning (Southwest Airways) Broadway producer and actors' agent; after nearly twelve years of marriage, three children; in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 10, 1948 | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

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