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Mystery Man. To grab Ebro, Juan March had to outwit and outfight a foe as powerful, mysterious and secretive as himself: Dannie N. (for Nusbaum) Heineman, who, at 78, looks startlingly like the late J. P. Morgan, has some of Morgan's mania for collecting (he owns a collection of original manuscripts of De Maupassant, Mozart and Goethe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH FINANCE: Second Battle of the Ebro | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...just what had prompted U.S. concessions to the Russians at Yalta. Explained Mrs. Colvin: "American representatives wondered...how the Russians could consume such large quantities of vodka and keep sober, when it had an intoxicating effect upon the Americans. But we have learned since that Stalin and the Soviets outwit the representatives of other nations by plying them with vodka while the Russians drink water from vodka bottles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Mixture as Before | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

...Accused. Loretta Young as a guilt-ridden professor of psychology trying to outwit a smart cop; an expert thriller, with Robert Cummings and Wendell Corey (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Mar. 7, 1949 | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

...Accused. Loretta Young as a guilt-ridden professor of psychology trying to outwit a smart cop; an expert thriller, with Robert Cummings and Wendell Corey (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Feb. 28, 1949 | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

...Accused. Loretta Young as a guilt-ridden professor of psychology trying to outwit a smart cop; an expert thriller, with Robert Cummings and Wendell Corey (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Feb. 21, 1949 | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

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