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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...breaking the hearts of beautiful women, matter of factly beating up his double crossing fellow gangsters, or filing his nails with a hacksaw, Alan Ladd and his head of hair manage to remain calm and collected. Or perhaps the word is suave. But at any rate, "Lucky Jordan," which possesses neither a first rate plot nor a cast of any note, is a first rate film...

Author: By C. C. G., | Title: MOVIEGOER | 3/29/1943 | See Source »

...hijacking chase follows to determine whether Moran or Jordan delivers the plans and collects the seventy-five grand. Somehow Jordan winds up employing his shotgun in the service of Uncle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 15, 1943 | 2/15/1943 | See Source »

...sociological treatise, Lucky Jordan shows that U.S. gangsters are infinitely nicer than Nazis because 1) they are Americans, 2) they do not like to "go around beating up old women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 15, 1943 | 2/15/1943 | See Source »

...whose public-service director is James Rowland Angell, that the company's religious activities ought to be separated from its educational office. Holder of the new separate portfolio, charged with making NBC religious broadcasting a potent factor in the war effort, is tall, cadaverous, 47-year-old Max Jordan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Job for Jordan | 2/15/1943 | See Source »

...Italian chemist and a devout Roman Catholic, Max Jordan got his Ph.D. in religious philosophy at Jena, then got sidetracked into journalism and radio. He scored many radio scoops during ten years as NBC's European chief. He was the first broadcaster from Nazi-occupied Paris, from the Zeppelin Hindenburg over the Atlantic and the first to send the Munich Pact text...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Job for Jordan | 2/15/1943 | See Source »

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