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...Caribbean waters. He keeps her first in his bathtub, then in his fish pond. He likes her, more than seems proper for a married man to like a mermaid. She likes him, too. She bites a girl who is flirting with him, and causes his jealous wife to huff back to Boston. In the long run the lovers have to part and a psychiatrist takes over with a full explanation. Men around 50, he points out simply, are liable to start seeing things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Aug. 16, 1948 | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

...Robert Newton) whose arrogant ambition to rise above his station kills his wife, drives his son to suicide, and sends his unmarried pregnant daughter (Deborah Kerr) out into a raging storm with fine Victorian flourish. Then, completely batty, father pulls the burning castle down over his ears in a huff, and leaves a mild young doctor (James Mason) to make an honest woman of Miss Kerr. The only possible excuse for bringing this seven-year-old film to the U.S. is mercenary: the box-office pull of Deborah Kerr and of James Mason, who, at this tender stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 26, 1948 | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

Unlike most other sports, walking is not necessarily limited to the very young. At the halfway mark, balding, 40-year-old Ernest Weber, a Manhattan delivery man, was bustling along like a jet-propelled dowager in a huff. One of the favorites, he used a lot of hip-shimmy ("It gives you a longer stride"), and piston-like arm motion ("I try to think I am pulling on a rope"). His eyes were busy too, watching a German refugee (now a U.S. citizen) named Henry Laskau, the man in the lead. Laskau, who took up walking as a sport only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: One Foot on the Ground | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

Among the best pictures in the show was a 17th Century scroll portraying an Indian named Bodhidharma who had brought Buddhism to China's Emperor Wu in the year 527, and left in a huff when Wu wouldn't listen. After the sage had departed, Wu felt rueful and sent a messenger to call him back. The messenger returned with strange news: Bodhidharma had politely declined the invitation, and when last seen was crossing the turbulent Yangtze, borne on a reed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Buoyant Buddhist | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

Smoke, No Fire. Those who expected a proxy fight at American Tobacco Co.'s annual meeting were disappointed. George Washington Hill Jr., who resigned in a huff a month ago (TIME, March 29), did not show up. President Vincent Riggio announced a first-quarter sales increase over the same period last year in both unit sales (up 8.10%) and dollar sales (up 8.06%). Stockholders in turn expressed confidence in the management by re-electing 16 directors and voting down a ceiling on executive compensation (Riggio's pay last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facts & Figures, Apr. 19, 1948 | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

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