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...Louis Nevin, U.P.'s Ralph Forte and Haynes Thompson, I.N.S.'s H. Edward Knob-laugh, TIME'S Piero Saporiti, Chicago Tribune's Jocelyn Bush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Censorship in Spain | 4/30/1951 | See Source »

When the marines seized and cleared Hongchon, they were still under fire from a knob to the north. The regimental commander appraised the situation calmly. "We've got the town," he said. "We control the roads. We'll get that knob...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF KOREA: Crunching Advance | 3/26/1951 | See Source »

...country that knows only realistic scenery, the late Christian Berard's setting is a revelation. He gives us no representation of a 17th-century town house, down to the last door-knob. Instead, Berard has found the essence of the play and put it on the stage in simple physical terms. The process is more than an intellectual or emotional one; it is also richly imaginative. This exceptionally rich and sure imagination is what distinguishes Berard's work...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: From the Pit | 3/21/1951 | See Source »

Morgan bends every effort to keep the televiewer's hand away from the knob. Inheriting a large audience from the Berle show, which precedes his own, Morgan tries to keep it by spelling out the plot quickly and in big, block letters. "We've even had to tack things up on the wall so people can see plainly what we're talking about from start to finish," he admits. Every scene moves the plot forward, with little time frittered away on character and atmosphere. "It's not that we're so damned much better than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Spell It Out | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

...than the mill run of TV comedy programs. Grinning affably, Young, a 29-year-old Scotsman who grew up in Vancouver, B.C., underplayed everything skillfully. In his first scene he painted himself into a corner of a room, then painted a door and doorknob on the wall, turned the knob gingerly and made a softshoe exit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Perfect Schnook | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

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