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Oliver Twist. Director David Lean's British-made version of the Dickens novel; with Alec Guinness and John Howard Davies (TIME...
...streets are named for trees. They edge Past random houses, safely fenced With paling or with privet hedge That bicycles can lean against...
...spring of 1945, the FBI had its lines all set for Philip Jaffe, the editor of the pro-Communist magazine Amerasia, and was about to arrest him. Then one day, John Stewart Service, a lean-jawed, young State Department foreign service officer just back from China, walked into Jaffe's hotel room in Washington and into the range of FBI microphones. Service lent Jaffe a sheaf of State Department reports on China, some stamped "secret" and "confidential." In four separate hotel-room sessions, he talked to Jaffe at great length about U.S. policy in China, twice cautioning Jaffe that...
Bill Mauldin's Army dates from 1939, from the lean waiting days of leggings, dishpan helmets, the first jeeps, and upended logs dignified by the sign "howitzer" tacked to their wooden trails. Mauldin's book takes that army through its adolescence in training and its maturity under fire. His cartoons tell a lot about what made that army grow, and even more about how Mauldin grew with...
Organized Chaos. Though not the highest-paid, George Price is probably the funniest cartoonist alive. With a line as lean as Arno's is broad, Price pilots a button-eyed, beak-nosed, slack-jowled crew of slovens through a maze of organized chaos. "I never saw two fighters more evenly matched," says one fight fan to another as two plug-uglies are hauled unconscious from the ring. During a six-day bicycle race, an announcer barks into the publicaddress system: "Mr. and Mrs. Herman L. Lembaugh, of 435 Grand Concourse, The Bronx, offer their only daughter, Ethel...