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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harrison kept right on crusading in his column ("At the Capitol'') in the New Mexican. He has put the finger on an attorney general who was drawing a salary as a corporation lawyef on the side, exposed an unpardoned felon who was serving in the state senate, complained...

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

Cap'n Bryant, 58, who gave up his own boat six years ago, could afford to beam at this stunt; today's showboat skipper can usually count the house by counting the hoots. For eleven weeks, St. Louis playgoers had gone down to the Goldenrod's mooring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: There Goes the Showboat | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

"Much Boomerang." At week's end, British critics found Goossens a man who "gives an impression of almost frightening efficiency," although they found his Berliners, by comparison with Beecham's Royal Philharmonic, slightly drab. Some found fault with his Mozart "Jupiter" (too dull). But after Roy Harris'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Plum Pudding a-Plenty | 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 »

Frail, timid William de Littlehampton was born in the wrong century and spent a lot of his time wishing he hadn't been born at all. Richard the Lion Heart was England's dashing monarch and knighthood was in flower; but at 20, Willie sat his horse like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Once Upon a Time | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

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