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...Lust-Putty." Hero Bill Gaunt, a Wylie-minded philosopher, suffers much as his fellow men do when, without warning or explanation, all wives and daughters vanish from the face of the earth. A host of domestic chores such as he has never suspected fall into his philosophical lap; his shiny Miami home becomes a filthy, desolate, loveless stew, and Gaunt himself an unkempt, ragged relict in a life that has lost its meaning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Shall We Join the Ladies? | 1/15/1951 | See Source »

...whole thing is shoddily fitted out with desperate gags, limp and feeble bits of farce, and characters who make depressing conversationalists. As satire on an ill-advised lust for money, it is merely the potboiler calling the kettle black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays In Manhattan, Dec. 4, 1950 | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

...that the U.S. people are more concerned with their own health and well-being than with technicalities of medical practice, Dr. Henderson broadened the front of A.M.A.'s war against the Truman-Ewing plan for national health insurance (TIME, Feb. 20). He lashed out against "little men whose lust for power is far out of proportion to their intellectual capacity . . . or their political honesty ... It is not just 'socialized medicine' which they seek . . . Their real objective is to strip the American people of self-determination and self-government, and make this a socialist state in the pathetic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Doctors at War | 7/10/1950 | See Source »

More than mere men could work against the crew at Annapolis, however. Some perverted whim, probably a lust for spectacle, impelled the athletic directors of the entering schools to run the regatta in one big race rather than in heats, as is customary. This could mean that the boat rowing in lane one may travel under entirely different tidal conditions than the shell in lane...

Author: By Rudolph Kass, | Title: Crew Favored to Sweep EARC Race Tomorrow | 5/12/1950 | See Source »

...camp in Missouri, join Quantrill's raiders and ride off to Santa Fe on a treacherous mission: to guide a gold-bearing wagon train into a bushwhackers' ambush. The wagons also carry beautiful, red-haired Arlene Dahl, who brings out strong, silent love in McCrea and villainous lust in Sullivan. Brought this far, any moviegoer should be able to gallop into the sunset...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Mar. 27, 1950 | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

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