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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the Chicago Symphony, Conductor Victor de Sabata bowled over an ecstatic opening-night audience - and the critics - just as he had in Pittsburgh last year (TIME, Nov. 22). Said the Sun-Times's Felix Borowski: "By all odds . . . the most fiery of any of the conductors who have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Nice Program | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

A hazy film of satire, or at any rate of spoofing, hangs over Yes, M'Lord. But in general Playwright Home seems to have done his best to make everything as inconsequential as possible. The play's weakness is not so much that it is trivial, as that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Oct. 17, 1949 | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

While all this hoopla was an obvious attempt to highlight the austere handling Eastern gives its passengers, President Baker feels that it is also symbolic of the comeback of his airline. With his labor troubles settled, he has pulled his operating costs per revenue ton mile down to 36.44?, but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Comeback for National | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

Died. Matt Joseph ("Colonel") Winn. 88, impresario of the Kentucky Derby, who ballyhooed what was once a pip-squeak. Dixie picnic into one of the U.S. racing classics (worth $100,000 to three-year-olds and over $8,000,000 annually to Louisville merchants); after an operation; in Louisville. A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 17, 1949 | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

I Married a Communist (RKO Radio) is a celluloid bullet aimed at the U.S.S.R. -a stock gangster film with Communists dubbed into the underworld roles. Its moral is addressed to the women: don't throw over a solid union man (acted in a pleasantly wooden way by Richard Roper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Pictures | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

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