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...armor and the impact of wind on the pennons in the van. The imagery is swift, the pen races the thought, the heart beats time, the invention never falters, but be neath and around all this there is an atmosphere of tender pity, of universal friendliness, of how mellow a wisdom, how golden a simplicity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Eastern Diary | 11/26/1945 | See Source »

...straight romance, this complicated fantasy is so elegantly presented that it becomes not only exciting but almost believable. Director William Dieterle wrings the last dramatic drop out of scene after scene. Photographer Lee Garmes, aided by some new painted canvas reflectors of his own devising, turns out a mellow masterpiece of lights and textures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 10, 1945 | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

...Mild and Mellow. In San Francisco, lean Harry Bridges, in sardonic good humor, sat back and read his congratulatory messages (some from employers). Both West Coast business and labor heaved a sigh of relief. Employers who would never learn to love Harry Bridges had learned how to live with him and like it. The case against him had become a nuisance and a bore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Bridges Uncrossed | 7/2/1945 | See Source »

Frank Fay, oldtime vaudevillian whose wistful-mellow portrait of a drunk with an imaginary rabbit (Harvey) enchants Broadway audiences, was the best actor of the 1944-45 theatrical season, according to Variety's annual critics' poll. Best actress: Oldtimer Laurette (Peg O' My Heart) Taylor in The Glass Menagerie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Cheerful Outlook | 6/11/1945 | See Source »

...been able to get to the heart of common people and rob them of their stories." Professor Dobie's many books on S. Southwest (Coronado's Chil dren, The Longhorns - TIME, March 17, 1941) glow with the lyric magic of the region's folk tales. His mellow, witty impressions of England, gathered in a year (1943-44) as professor of American history at Cambridge, are as vividly colored: he met and "robbed" many an English man in college commons, in pubs, manor houses, railway carriages, on country meadows and London sidewalks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Folklorist Abroad | 5/7/1945 | See Source »

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