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...private wire and simply breathe the secret password: "Malbrough s'en va-t-en guerre [Maryborough-is going to war]." At the other end, a police functionary would flash the word to the motorized cops who were standing eagerly by to escort the couple to the Mont-Choisi Clinic. Then, after Aly and Rita slipped out, the concierge would lock every exit of the hotel, thus trap the impatient representatives of the world press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Yasmin | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

...BRENNER Grant, Mont...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 2, 1950 | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

This week, Goodman Ace and wife Jane brought a new version of their old Easy Aces to television (Wed. 7:45 p.m., Du Mont), complete with puns, malapropisms and humor aimed at grownups. "It's sort of a homey little thing," explained Ace. "We don't expect it to revolutionize the business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: A Homey Little Thing | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Since the TV version of Easy Aces is a filmed "package" show, produced by the Frederic W. Ziv Co., and since several sponsors will carry the show over 40 stations of the Du Mont network, Goodman Ace cautiously hopes to escape the twin furies which pursued him in radio-Hooperatings ("the rating system is a $50,000 tail wagging a $50 million dog") and vice presidents ("the only morons in radio are in the offices"). He suspects that he and Jane talk too much on the first few shows: "I've got to force myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: A Homey Little Thing | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...story went like this: in 1943 and 1944, Racey Jordan was stationed at Great Falls, Mont, as a Lend-Lease expediter and liaison officer with the Russian staff headed by a Colonel Anatoly Koti-kov. Through Great Falls moved thousands of U.S. war planes to be ferried on to Russia by way of Alaska. Jordan became suspicious of the black suitcases arriving by special plane and accompanied by armed Russian guards. One day he decided to take action, entered a plane, brushed aside two Russian couriers who "were screaming about diplomatic immunity," and broke open the cases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Dark Doings | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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