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Well, well, well, it just shows you what misapprehensions people can labor under. I (and several million others) imagined that General Montgomery, the British Army and Air Force (not to mention the Polish and French) had quite a bit to do with knocking out the Afrika Korps, and clearing the Germans out of France and Sicily...
...racketeers in A.F.L. (TIME, Dec. 9, 1940) and advanced I.L.G.W.U.'s cause by such moves as: 1) getting Manhattan dress manufacturers to agree to penalize themselves for inefficiency, as defined by the union (TIME, Feb. 24, 1941); 2) persuading employers in the cloak & suit industry to pay $2 million a year into a workers' old-age insurance fund (TIME, June...
Other Parisian hosts, however, had little time for such sentimental regrets. This year's tourists might be better behaved than the old, carefree variety, but during the 1949 season they had flocked to France almost 3,000,000 strong to swell the nation's economy with $195 million worth of foreign exchange and provide the biggest tourist year since 1927. Every Sunday for two months 25,000 gawkers had shuffled through the Palace at Versailles to gape at the Sun King's old splendors. The Eiffel Tower had not had so many visitors since 1889. Bus tours...
...Americans over whom Harry's barman gloomed were outnumbered this year by half a million Britons, 900,000 Belgians, 400,000 Swiss, 150,000 Scandinavians and 90,000 Spaniards. The 200,000 from the U.S., however, had left some $78 million behind to provide France with her biggest single chunk of hard currency outside the Marshall Plan. The 1949 American tourists were younger, poorer and more serious-minded than before, but Paris' barmen happily reported that they still outdrank everyone else, with the Swedes and Britons running second and third. And just to prove that there were still...
...bulbous eyes, which go right on revolving in the dark like a couple of off-center marbles. Basking more or less uncomfortably in Welles's reflected flamboyance is a cast of thousands, headed by Nancy Guild, Valentina Cortesa, Akim Tamiroff and Stephen Bekassy, and draped in 70 million lire worth of costumes. As a brutal assertion of quantity over quality Black Magic exerts a kind of hypnotic fascination; otherwise it is chiefly remarkable as a triumph of matter over mind...