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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same small, 50-year button that, as president, he had pinned on so many other G.E. oldtimers. Last week, at a small banquet in Manhattan's Hotel Pierre, Old-timer Wilson got it from ex-G.E. President Gerard Swope. Then Charlie Wilson took a long, hard look at the past and the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Tell 'Em | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...comedy situations are irrepressibly coy; the songs and dances remorselessly routine. Most pointed comment on the movie's pace: the glazed look of indifference on the faces of the five babies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 12, 1949 | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...among the new witches were John Procter, who had cured his maid's fits by plumping her down at a spinning wheel and threatening a thrashing if she stirred from it, and Martha Cory, a hearty matron who had rashly asserted she didn't believe in witches. ("Look!" screamed one of the girls at church service, "there sits Goody Cory on the beam, suckling a yellow bird betwixt her fingers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ye Old Boy | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

Unlike the best of his earlier drawings, these are vaguer in outline, foggier in theme, harder to unravel. Like them, they feature literal and psychological nakedness. His first two books were worth the time of anyone who was willing to look at himself in psychic undress and momentarily exchange his individuality for the plight of today's mythical Everyman. Dean doesn't have "entirely different thoughts now" (see cut); he merely has more incomprehensible ones. Psychiatrists may decide that Dean is now poking around at a deeper level of the subconscious; to plain folks and old-fashioned artists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Is Anybody Happy? | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

Each of the agents met his crisis in his own way. Happy's fate was sealed when the pursuit forced him off the highways and into the headquarters of one of the divisions he had come to Germany to find; too many people got a good look at him, and remembered his face later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hunters & Hunted | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

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