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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proposals of marriage, 2) an offer of a date for the Army-Navy football game from a West Point cadet, 3) a score of letters and telegrams on miscellaneous subjects, 4) a visit from a Hollywood representative to discuss a movie about a teen-age girl columnist. Miss Daly thinks that she would like to be technical adviser for that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 12, 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...salary kickback scheme on orders from the boss. Helen Campbell, in a fit of conscience and disgust, turned on Thomas and told what she knew. Columnist Drew Pearson printed the full story, leading the Congressman to his downfall. For her "free, frank and full" confession, Judge Alexander Holtzoff let Miss Campbell go free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Reckoning | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Intruder in the Dust (MGM) is a too-earnest treatment of a wildly imaginative novel. The story, derived from one of William Faulkner's most polemic works, was shot almost entirely in Faulkner's home town (Oxford, Miss., pop. 3,500), with the author acting as a sidewalk superintendent during the filming. Nonetheless, the movie, stripped of Faulkner's peripheral probings into mind, heart and scene, is not only dead serious but dead on its feet; its cautious approach to its material results in a film that is more like an arty still photograph than a motion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Dec. 12, 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...Cabot-Miss Helen M. Cam. History; Louis Hartz '40, Government; Harry Levin '33, English; Kenneth B. Murdock '16, English; Alfred S. Romer, Zoology; and Henry Murray '15, lecturer on Clinical Psychology...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe to Institute Faculty Tutor Plan at Party Friday | 12/10/1949 | See Source »

George Tobias and Lenore Lonergan play the comedy leads. Tobins tells ancient jokes, postures, grimaces-but fails to entertain. Miss Lonergan, by far the superior performer, is sometimes able to make the audience believe that what it sees and hears is clever; but when she leaves the stage, apathy takes her place. Jack Cole and his troupe of dancers are occasionally interesting; more often they merely wiggle their hands and chase one another in circles...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 12/10/1949 | See Source »

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