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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people in the city, barely half were engaged in "productive" labor. Therefore, the remedy was to cut its population in half, to change it from "a consumptive to a productive" place by uprooting non-productive citizens and sending them back to the land. Echoed one Red paper: "The ideal city of modern times is the 'garden city,' where the population should not be too large...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Ideal City | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

Neither marriage nor motherhood could save her. In her husband (Van Heflin), a dull-witted country doctor, Emma discovers an ideal cuckold. Thereafter her course is clear: the well-beaten path from boredom to eroticism to ruin. When she learns at last that her lovers-a handsome philandering landowner (Louis Jourdan) and a petty law clerk (Christopher Kent) -are only men of clay, when she has lost the love of her child and squandered the family fortune, Emma takes the bitter way out: arsenic, agony and death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 15, 1949 | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

Lutherans took issue with the cardinal on a matter of fundamental principle: the separation of church and state, "a cherished ideal of all American Lutherans since they first arrived on American soil 300 years ago." Lutherans did not seek federal aid to education, declared Dr. John W. Behnken, president of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, the most conservative of the large Lutheran groups.* Even if the Government should offer help to private schools, Dr. Behnken said, "there must be a clear understanding that no Government assistance can be given to support the instructional program of church schools. If there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Echoes | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

...beautiful film actress, Corinne Luchaire had grown up among the "respectable" Nazis that frequented Banker von Schroeder's mansion. There, too, she had met Otto Abetz. Politically, Otto was faithless to France; personally, he was faithless to his wife Suzanne and the son that symbolized their pre-Nazi ideal. Before he was expelled from France in 1939, Otto Abetz made 17-year-old Corinne Luchaire his mistress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: Men of Good Will | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...Kirkwood Jr., husky, handsome pro golfer and "the Ideal American Boy" who plays Joe Palooka in the movies, was hauled off to court in Worcester, Mass. and adjudged the father of a pair of six-year-old ideal American twins belonging to a movie cashier named Florence Hep-penstall. "I scarcely knew the girl," said Joe, who nonetheless made a prompt cash settlement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Hail & Farewell | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

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