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Touchdowns by Jerry. Last week, while one brother was playing at Williams and another at Yale, young Jerry was having a field day. Dad and seven other Conways (including Tommy) watched him break loose on a 50-yard touchdown run against Nichols School. That wasn't all: three times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Conway's Boys | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

Night Has a Thousand Eyes (Paramount), a smooth-surfaced, creaky-jointed melodrama, stars Edward G. Robinson as a vaudeville "mentalist" who finds, to his embarrassment, that his clairvoyant gift is genuine. He feels so helplessly responsible for the catastrophes he foresees that he cannot bear to cash in on his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 8, 1948 | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

Bill Voiselle lumbered out from the bullpen last week like a shaggy, loose-jointed bear. On his back was a big "96," the name of his home town* in South Carolina. All he seemed to need was a coon dog jogging at his heels. With 24,174 pairs of eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Retread | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

Road to Rio (Paramount). The Crosby-Hope-Lamour "Road" pictures, in the opinion of plenty of enthusiastic cinemaddicts, can lead anywhere and go on forever. Their comedy is more verbal than visual, but any kind of slapstick-one of cinema's lost arts-is rare these days. Because they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 26, 1948 | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

The Beauty. Occasionally Professor Morison interrupts his hurried pitching of facts to write lovingly of his subject: "A convoy is a beautiful thing. . . . The inner core of stolid merchantmen in column is never equally spaced, for each ship has individuality. . . . Around the column is thrown the screen like a loose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ships Going Down | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

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