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Gromyko and the Czech and Polish delegations stayed away from the signing. Just before the ceremony, Gromyko held a press conference in which he repeated his familiar tune. After half an hour, newsmen began to walk out on him in disgust. Gromyko was heard to mutter: "There is nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: Russian Rout | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

...taxpayers will be grateful for such economy; if the planners are wrong, the U.S. will be disastrously half-ready. It is a massive gamble, which only a few men like Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch boldly criticize: he, almost alone, would go all-out on production now; the rest mutter and have misgivings, but go along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOBILIZATION: Half Speed Ahead | 7/16/1951 | See Source »

...show with the soldiers when Matthew walked in, a four-day pass in his pocket. With a reserve that bettered even the best British tradition, he sat down beside his wife and watched the show with her. "Everybody was in stitches, of course," related Benita. "I heard one man mutter: 'Damned idiot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN AT WAR: A Family Matter | 6/25/1951 | See Source »

...queen. But as the professor approached the mountains around Devil's Valley, a torrential rain poured from the skies. He waited 48 hours for the downpour to stop, then abandoned the mission. Tnbesmen, deciding that perhaps the old queen has what it takes after all were heard to mutter: "Mujaji has put up a ram curtain to stop the white man." The queen seemed safe once more-at least while it rained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: I Do Not Choose to Drink | 5/7/1951 | See Source »

Orson Welles can never keep his left-tinted ideology clear of his work. this is no exception. Welles' Scots mutter dialectical materialism through their scraggly beards, and he has cluttered up Shakespeare's often excellent plot with a large amount of irrelevant detail. To top everything off, Welles has introduced a comic gravedigger and a moving forest. Stay clear of this one; it is at Boston's Copley Theatre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Day by Day | 10/28/1950 | See Source »

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