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One cloudy afternoon last week, twelve B-26 light bombers roared down the runway at Floyd Bennett Field, took off and disappeared to rendezvous for a bombing run on New York City. Minutes later, three radar stations in outlying areas, two manned by Canadians, one by Americans, had picked up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Operation Metropolis | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

Three weeks ago such team work got a priority policy rating from the North Atlantic Treaty Defense Committee. If North American forces were to work as an operational unit, both Washington and Ottawa wanted many more get-togethers like Operation Metropolis.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Operation Metropolis | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

Song of Surrender (Paramount) describes the adventures of a backwoods Cinderella (Wanda Hendrix) living in turn-of-the-century New England with a stern husband (Claude Rains) old enough to be her father. The pumpkin which gets her away from it all is a primitive talking-machine and a handful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Oct. 24, 1949 | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

There are some obvious sources of merry-making available in the envirous of this great metropolis. We cannot, however, take the space to list all the package stores within a ten-mile radius. Instead, this article is intended to touch upon some of the entertainment highlights which you could just...

Author: By "g." Ripzky-korastoff, | Title: Boston Beckons Visitors with Burlesque, Cuisines, Movies, Cabarets, and Football | 10/21/1949 | See Source »

Even as the one new thing around, Ken Murray's vaudeville is by no means a treat. Part of its fantastic Hollywood success may stem, indeed, from its being just the kind of flesh & blood show a movie metropolis can condescend to.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Variety Show in Manhattan | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

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