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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Walter Lippmann had written: "Franklin D. Roosevelt is an amiable man with many philanthropic impulses, but he is not the dangerous enemy of anything. The notion . . . that Wall Street fears him is preposterous. . . . [He] is no crusader. ...'. He is a pleasant man who, without any important qualifications for the office, would very much like to be President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roosevelt's Life & Times | 4/23/1945 | See Source »

...Foolish Notion. In Seattle, Eric Mackey slashed his left wrist, drank down a bottle of disinfectant, jumped seven stories from a hotel room, had his plunge broken by a jutting marquee. At the local hospital he commented: "Kind of foolish thing to do. I could have killed myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 9, 1945 | 4/9/1945 | See Source »

...Foolish Notion (by Philip Barry; produced by the Theater Guild). A worldling and a wit, Philip Barry is really at home only in a drawing room. But, as a dabbler in philosophic fantasy, he is also a little stifled there: the Pirandello in him is always edging out the Pinero. In Foolish Notion Barry has held to the drawing room, but has carefully thrown open its windows to the mysterious night air. The result is that child of fashion and fantasy. a jeu d'esprit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan, Mar. 26, 1945 | 3/26/1945 | See Source »

...bright enough idea, Barry's fantasy winds up seeming more like just a foolish notion. For all the Elizabeth Ardenish chic with which he has surrounded his Enoch Ardenish story, Barry cannot pump any real life or lightness into it. The visions make neither good sense nor good nonsense; the ending of the play is lame; the dialogue is sometimes bright but often flashy, and riddled with literary puns ("I have been faithful to thee, Cynara. after my Old Fashioneds"). For its best moments Foolish Notion can thank deep-throated Actress Bankhead-a tiger in her wrath and also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan, Mar. 26, 1945 | 3/26/1945 | See Source »

Albert Einstein, for his scientific skepticism in scoffing at the notion that eggs stand on end in China on the first day of the Chinese spring (TIME, Feb. 12) was taken to task by Chen Kuo-fu, head of China's radio network, who told Einstein off as follows: the first day of spring in China begins when the surface of the sun toward the earth is largest, thus attracting the eggs to stand on end. Chen Kuo-fu added that he believed the sun was not round, asked Einstein to "look into the matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Mar. 12, 1945 | 3/12/1945 | See Source »

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