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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week 73-year-old Jim Curley returned to Boston and his $20,000-a-year job (Boston had thoughtfully kept his pay going while he was in prison). President Truman had commuted his 6-to-18-month sentence at the end of five months,* one month before he would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASSACHUSETTS: Hail to the Chief | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

Siqueiros was a hell-for-leather Communist of the old-fashioned sort, and could never keep his eagle beak out of trouble: jail was always interrupting his painting. He is still a devoted party liner, though the Communists expelled him in 1930 for visiting his girl friend when he was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Paint & Pistols | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

Last week a surgeon suggested that plastic surgery can reverse the process and make a bad man better. Dr. John F. Pick of Chicago has been testing this theory for eleven years by remolding the faces-and hence the characters, he hopes-of convicts at Illinois' Stateville Penitentiary. It...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pretty Does as Pretty Is? | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

Brute Force (Universal), a Mark Hellinger production, stars Burt Lancaster, but is not otherwise to be compared with Hellinger's The Killers. The Killers may have been hammy, but it was grade-A ham, so adroitly served up that the picture got on several of last year's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Aug. 4, 1947 | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

For one home-front scoundrel of World War II, the day of reckoning had arrived. He was the highfalutinest of U.S. draft-dodgers, Serge Rubinstein, 38, who made several millions as a wartime Wall Street adventurer (TIME, May 6, 1946). In Manhattan's federal court last week, fat, shifty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Top Dodger | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

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