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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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But for nearly three years the New Mexican had to sit on the biggest local story it ever had-Los Alamos and the atom bomb. As a reward for not even hinting at the story only 35 miles from Santa Fe, the Army gave the New Mexican an international beat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The First 100 Years | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

Like the others, Portland's Symphony Society had been able to raise only part of the money it needed: $50,000 in a drive for $140,000. The season had been called off. Unlike the others, Portland's musicians were ready to play at any price. Their solution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Flat Broke | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

Instead, St. Peter's 1,900-year-old bones were said to have been found in a plain terra cotta urn less than 20 feet below the floor of the cathedral, surrounded by scattered gold coins of the period when Peter died. Since their discovery, Reporter Cianfarra was told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Confident Awaiting | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

Jolson Sings Again begins prosaically enough where the first movie left off, but it soon becomes a fascinating look at Hollywood backstage. Producer Sidney Buchman gives a close explanation of how he pulled off his neatest trick-the synchronizing of Jolson's singing voice with Actor Larry Parks'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 5, 1949 | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

Orson-Welles, no mean prestidigitator in his own right, relishes every minute of Cagliostro's swashbuckling career. Rolling his eyes like an end man in an oldtime minstrel show, he charms crippled aristocrats right off their crutches, ogles a beautiful blonde into marriage against her will, beetles and bluffs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 5, 1949 | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

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