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Word: magically (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...production. Adapter Valency's version is good and George S. Kaufman's staging far from bad. Leueen MacGrath is charming as the girl, but too monotonous; Wesley Addy is engaging as the suitor, but too stiff. Only Francis Poulenc's music catches the proper note of magic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Jan. 30, 1950 | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

This picture shows 22 leaders of World Communism gathered in Moscow's Bolshoi Theater for Joseph Stalin's 70th birthday. Between them they rule one-third of the human race. Most of them lived obscurely until tapped by the Kremlin's magic wand; thus they fulfill one prophetic line of the Internationale: "We have been naught, we shall be all." Left to right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: WE HAVE BEEN NAUGHT, WE SHALL BE ALL | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

Screen Directors' Playhouse (Fri. 9 p.m., NBC) James Stewart in Magic Town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Jan. 9, 1950 | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

...This means," said Greenewalt, "that if we risk $6,000,000 in research on a nylon there are perhaps $24 million spent on unsuccessful ventures that must be paid for by the one that does come through." No magic guaranteed that the new products could be sold. "The only power corporations have, whether large or small," said Greenewalt, "is the right to stand in the market place and cry their wares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Pilgrim's Progress | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

...Magic Herbs. This hollow old stump of a plot might be enough for many a bestseller, but Novelist Goudge crams it with something more. She adores animals; so the book becomes an ark of cats, dogs, horses and oxen which almost outnumber the human population. She has a fondness for the supernatural; so the book is aclog with fairies, a white witch, magic herbs, and vervain brews. She cannot resist a legend, so several of them weave and wind in a fine confusion through the novel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Woof of Joy | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

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