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...Accused is well constructed, well acted and less weighted with hokum than most psychological thrillers. It common-sensically concedes that a smart cop who knows crimes and criminals could outwit an equally smart psychologist who doesn't. As the cop, Wendell Corey, a comparative newcomer from Broadway, not only steals scenes from Movie Veterans Young and Cummings, but also makes the semi-villain so real and likable that audiences may feel the heroine has won the second-best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 24, 1949 | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

...wealthy trading family; at 16 he went to England to study law. As an advocate of the Bombay High Court he was, according to a colleague, "the best showman of them all ... His greatest delight was to confound the opposing lawyer by confidential asides and to outwit the presiding judge in repartee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAKISTAN: That Man | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

...real test, for he and his substitute, Brokaw, were called upon to stop only seven shots during the entire contest. There is little doubt as to the individual ability of the Yale sextet, but it is impossible to tell from their record so far this year whether they can outwit the Crimson defence, which has been especially drilled to stop the Blue combination...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON SEXTET MEETS YALE AT NEW HAVEN TODAY | 1/30/1948 | See Source »

...Bergen and dummies, in Technicolor, tell a little girl (Luana Patten) a cartooned variant of the Jack & the Beanstalk story. Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse and Goofy, after a first-rate sequence as starving peasants, are lifted into the sky by a magic plant. There they meet Willie the Giant, outwit him (no hard job), and rescue a captive heroine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 20, 1947 | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

...comedian of the decade, if he doesn't outwit himself out of radio, is, of course, Henry Morgan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 28, 1947 | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

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