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During his early years in Hollywood, anyone who had predicted that he would end up as the rootin'-tootin' idol of U.S. children would have been led instantly off to a headshrinker.* Boyd, an Ohio-born laborer's son, went to California in 1915 because he yearned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Kiddies in the Old Corral | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

Lindsay & Grouse's libretto is quite primitive as satire, and rather shameless (three of those phone calls to President Truman that are beginning to outnumber, on Broadway, the old Eleanor Roosevelt gags), but it is breezy and good-natured. George Abbott's direction is pleasantly breezy too; and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Oct. 23, 1950 | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

Honduras' easygoing President Juan Manuel Gálvez has his own way of keeping close tabs on events in his sunny capital. A good-natured man who strolls the streets of Tegucigalpa unescorted, he takes time out for checker games with newsboys, swaps gossip with all comers. It was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HONDURAS: Firm in the Saddle | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

Egyptian art conventions did change over the centuries, though most of the modifications were so slight as to be almost imperceptible to the artists who made them. Slowly, Drioton says, "the sublime grandeur of the royal faces . . . gave way to a more human ideal of majesty mixed with a certain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Secret Garden | 10/2/1950 | See Source »

"Not one in a hundred of these guys is ducking," said a draft official in Chicago, where about one-third of the selectees weren't showing up for physicals. In New York, with a 23% no-show, Selective Service Director Candler Cobb growled menacingly about calling in the FBI...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Kick of the Starter | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

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