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...Pushkin Square, Rear Admiral Leslie C. Stevens, U.S. naval attache in Moscow, sat over a mug of strong, sweet Russian beer. Before very long he was joined by "a little black-browed man with no collar and a very dirty shirt." His companion turned out to be a typesetter on Pravda, who, after assuring himself that Stevens was not an MVD agent, whispered: "Don't worry about propaganda against your country. We Russians do not believe it. Whenever you read such things, it is a sure sign the Russian people . . . think otherwise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Attache's Report | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

...girl (Barbara Bates, Jody Lawrence, Peggy Ryan). This is the sort of picture in which the characters have such names as Moby Dickerson and Gay Knight. All Ashore is at its brightest when it gives sawed-off Mickey Rooney a chance to hoof, sing, do assorted pratfalls and mug his way amusingly through a saloon sequence in which he is fed a Mickey Finn, a dream sequence in which he imagines he is a lionhearted medieval knight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 3/9/1953 | See Source »

...into the door and must have realized what it was about and he tried to get out. He almost got out.' He said, 'It's a lucky thing I was there. If I wasn't there, he would have got away. I grabbed him and mugged him . . . and he started to fight and he tried to break the mug, and that's when he scratched me. But he didn't get away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Nine Hundred & Forty Thieves | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

...Okay, baby, get this down. Joe tear out pate one. Charlie, get a picture of this mug. Play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deadline, U.S.A. | 4/25/1952 | See Source »

...answers to these and other exciting questions, see Deadline, U.S.A. See a mug get crushed between the rollers of a big city press. See Rienzi, the rat, suck the city's blood, unchecked and unnoticed save by one two-fisted managing editor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deadline, U.S.A. | 4/25/1952 | See Source »

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