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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Snake Pit. Hollywood's hard, honest look at mental illness, with a chillingly good performance by Olivia de Havilland (TIME...
Most of the children look upon Adelheide as the next thing to heaven. With almost no urging, they have organized an orchestra, a fortnightly Mimeographed paper, a system of student government. But sometimes there are problems. The Catholic director, cheery, pink-faced Alfons Loebbert, a layman, has more of these than Protestant Pastor Reich, since some 400 of the Catholic children are neither orphans nor wanderers: they are children of Berliners, flown out of the city by the R.A.F. at the beginning of winter, to ease the burden of the blockade...
...dressing room before the game, the young giant laced and unlaced his size 13 gym shoes until they were tied just right. He shrugged off sportwriters' questions about his scoring intentions that night, concentrated on taping on a pair of eyeglasses that gave him a Harold Lloyd look. Then George ("Mike") Mikan of the Minneapolis Lakers, the hottest player in pro basketball this season, straightened up to his full 6 ft. 10 in. and answered the reporters: "This is just another game...
...hadda get up in front and sing." In 1946, he made only $2,000 at it. Then things began to happen-for one, his recording of That's My Desire caught on belatedly, sold a million records. The way the bobby-soxers started crowding around, he began to look like a well-nourished Sinatra. Last year, he raked in about...
...Street, Body and Soul and All of Me? You can't miss with them." And he had learned to put on a show to take a bobby-soxer's heart. In the old days he sang with his eyes closed ("I couldn't bear to look at the audience"). Now he sings with his eyes wide open and swiveling in their sockets. He also moves about, shuffling, jumping, pedaling, ending with what he calls his "cheerleader finale...