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...great, grey-green, greasy (as Kipling called it) Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees," is sometimes called Africa's Mason-Dixon Line. Reason: it divides "Jim Crow" South Africa from the self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia, where "white-black partnership" is at least theoretically the rule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE COMMONWEALTH: Africa Emerges | 3/17/1952 | See Source »

...other bracket, which has only progressed to quarter finals so far, Charlie Ufford, tourney favorite, meets Mason Harding 1G, while Wis Wood takes on Hugh Scott, former Princeton star...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Squashmen Excel in University Racquets Play-Offs | 3/14/1952 | See Source »

...third and more novel possibility is being widely discussed south of the Mason-Dixon line. Several Southern states have adopted or are adopting laws which keep presidential candidates' names off the general election ballot. The citizens vote, instead, only for party electors, who will be free to cast their ballots for whomever they wish when the electoral college meets next December...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Challenge from the South | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

...producers of Five Fingers have added to this true-fantastic tale a number of fanciful touches that detract from the unadorned facts. The picture gives Cicero (James Mason) a beautiful, double-crossing Polish countess (Danielle Darrieux) as his partner in spying and smooching, and has him ending up in a luxurious South American hideout. The film also drags in a few standard cinematic suspense props, e.g., a charwoman accidentally sets off the alarm which Cicero has disconnected while rifling the embassy safe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 10, 1952 | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

...James Mason, with his polished playing of the poker-faced valet, helps iron out some of the dialogue wrinkles in this cloak & dagger drama. Also lending a bit of credulity to the proceedings: Oscar Karlweis as Moyzisch and John Wengraf as his boss, Ambassador Franz von Papen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 10, 1952 | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

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