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Back in the marital crisis, Susan nobly decides to give up her child rather than tell her husband the truth. But wait. Watching her hover tearfully at the bedside of the little girl, Smith decides that a child's place, after all, is with its mother, even if mother is a drunkard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 6, 1950 | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

...predigesting job takes some doing. Around each working computer hover young mathematicians with dreamy eyes. On desks flecked with frothy figures, they translate real-life problems into figure-language. It usually takes them much longer to prepare a problem than it takes the machine to solve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Thinking Machine | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

...during the last few years, and the business as a whole appears to be on the upgrade. Most of them are three-or four-man affairs. The half-dozen or so outfits in the field each print anywhere from two to a dozen books a year. Press runs usually hover around 5,000. Yet such midget firms as Prime Press in Philadelphia, Fantasy Press in Reading, Pa. and Shasta Press in Chicago eke out profits from their small printings, for two reasons: 1) they keep advertising and other overhead costs to a minimum, and 2) they can count on regular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Never Too Old to Dream | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

...paintings are his best yet. Kingman composed each one as elaborately as a Chinese puzzle, lit them with hectic dabs and flashes of bright color, and peopled them with wistful or sometimes sinister figures that seemed to hover uncertainly about the edges of his pictures, like the onlookers that interrupted his work. The paintings are crammed with signs reading Coffee Coffee Coffee, Goat, or ABCDEFGHIJK, and with crooked street lamps, unlikely stoplights, and one-way signs that often as not point straight up or down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Meeting of East & West | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

Detective Story (by Sidney Kingsley; produced by Howard Lindsay & Russel Grouse) does a full-color job on life in a Manhattan police station. Laid in the detective squad room, it bristles with movement and crackles with drama, is by turns grim and grotesque, touching and horrifying. Around the edges hover wacky complainants and befuddled minor offenders; farther inside, matters are darker, bloodier, more tragic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Apr. 4, 1949 | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

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