Word: jameses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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It was a big week for the harmonica. James Caesar Petrillo declared that it was a sure-enough, wage-earning musical instrument, and that professional harmonica players would have to join his musicians' union. Beamed Petrillo: "Now that it's getting so that people want to hear harmonicas...
Rope. Alfred Hitchcock's blood-freezer about two bright young men who commit murder just for the fun of it, with John Dall, Farley Granger and James Stewart (TIME, Sept. 13).
The Time of Your Life. William Saroyan's woozy salute to alcoholics unanimous, with James Cagney, James Barton, and an enthusiastic following (TIME, June 14).
For the first time since Henry James put his hand to it, in 1879, the task of writing Hawthorne's biography has been undertaken by a born novelist of distinction. James wrote in England, in all the panoply of his handsome prose, and with a good deal of Old...
Robert Cant well's portrayal of Hawthorne is superior to James's in warmth and scope; it is free of James's overtones of worldly condescension; and whatever it may lack of James's awesome artistic judgment it makes up for in freshness, and in the...