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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Your story on the Hiss trial wrapped the whole subject up for me, after weeks of frustrated wondering what it was all about. . . . Can you tell me why my newspapers quoted so sparely from those summation speeches? I could make neither head nor tail of the trial from their accounts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 8, 1949 | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

Acheson insisted that the bill contained "the minimum amount required" to equip "the very modest forces" which Europe had on hand. The U.S. was not arming Europe to resist an all-out attack: "What is required is rather sufficient strength to make it impossible for an aggressor to achieve a quick and easy victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: A Matter of Timing | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

...Berkleys of Broadway. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers still make an engaging dance team (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Aug. 1, 1949 | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

Then the harsh blow fell. From 20th Century-Fox came word that Darryl Zanuck was toying with the idea of casting Tyrone Power as the Sheik. A producer at Monogram named Jan Grippo also announced that he would make a movie based on Valentino's life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Return of the Sheik? | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

Director Henry Koster has told this gentle, humorous story with taste and a light touch. Best comedy bit: as the two nuns whiz through Manhattan in a borrowed jeep, Sister Margaret, the superbly efficient driver, explains to Sister Scholastica : "You'll notice, Sister, that I must signal to make a turn. It is the law." So saying, she makes a snappy U turn smack in the middle of Fifth Avenue, and parks on the curb in front of St. Patrick's Cathedral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Aug. 1, 1949 | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

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