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...feelingly the beautiful brutality of nature unshackled is not interested in peace. A man whose passions run so high he strikes natives in his anger at the sea is not concerned with reason. A man who sets out to battle demons of the deep which out-weigh and outwit him, with only his wife and bull-dog for company, cares little for security. He is an adventurer, and his tale is one of adventure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Paradise With Nightmares | 2/18/1953 | See Source »

...many other fire fighters have been killed). He is wealthy enough to retire on his fire fighting earnings (an estimated $100,000 a year), plus royalties on oilfield tools, sold by a company he owns in Houston. But Kinley, who regards fire as a personal demon always scheming to outwit him, can never resist the next jangle of the long-distance fire bell. Says he: "I guess I'll retire when they carry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: The Fire Beater | 2/9/1953 | See Source »

...leadership failed to check and to turn back Communist ambition before it savagely attacked us. The Korean war-more perhaps than any other war in history-simply and swiftly followed the collapse of our political defenses. There is no other reason than this: we failed to read and to outwit the totalitarian mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: I Shall Go to Korea | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

Springfield Rifle (Warner) shows how Major Gary Cooper helped outwit Confederate spies during the Civil War and thus insured victory for a decisive Union Army offensive. Cooper is cashiered out of the cavalry, supposedly for cowardice. Actually, he has been assigned as an undercover agent to crack a Southern spy ring that is hijacking horses. With the help of the new, rapid-firing Springfield rifle, Cooper finally triumphs over the horse raiders, and is rewarded with an appointment to head a department of military intelligence in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Way Out West | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

Roaming the Mediterranean during the 18th century. Pirate Lancaster and his capering, cutthroat crew outwit the King of Spain's men on sea. land and even in the air-by means of an anachronistic balloon. There is also a subplot about El Libre (Frederick Leister), a democratic rebel, and his pretty daughter (Eva Bar-tok), who is loved by Lancaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 15, 1952 | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

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