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...businesslike Reds moved right into Hanoi's government offices as if they always had occupied them. Slight, youthful-looking General Giap prepared to take over at the Citadelle, where French generals had given orders since the days of Gambetta and MacMahon and where, nine years ago, they had gallantly held out against the Japanese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDO-CHINA: The Fall of Hanoi | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

...small role as Simpkins' aunt-mother, Aline MacMahon presents an exceptionally moving study of a woman who wanted a child, got hi, then found he could never really be hers, although he would always be the son of someone (Someone) not on this earth...

Author: By Michael Maccoby, | Title: The Confidential Clerk | 1/15/1954 | See Source »

...enough. Cantor's voice, cued into the song sequences, still keeps much of its first freshness. Also, the script manages to get a few words in between the big production numbers, and even provides a couple of probable parts for Marilyn Erskine, as Ida Cantor, and for Aline MacMahon, who carries the first half of the picture as Eddie's grandmother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 4, 1954 | 1/4/1954 | See Source »

Celanese Theater (Wed. 10 p.m., ABC). Mornings at Seven, with Aline MacMahon and Patricia Collinge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Apr. 14, 1952 | 4/14/1952 | See Source »

...plotline of Children of the Rainbow is not its lifeline: that is in the glow of living that runs through the book. Novelist MacMahon escapes the twin vices of Irish fiction, blarney and bathos, and he writes about his Ireland as if he had never so much as heard of Dublin's James Joyce and the sad, dark view he took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Shout in the Blood | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

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