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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ahmed killed the Premier? He explained: "Because he caused Egypt to lose the Sudan, surrendered Palestine to the Jews, and dissolved the Moslem Brotherhood . . . the only organization fighting for Islam in the past 20 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Dam-Bid-Dam | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

...there are 400 things that London's progressive Tate Gallery can't abide, they are the pictures and sculptures that for the past 52 years have been drifting in from the bequest of wealthy Victorian Sculptor Sir Francis Chantrey. In that time, the unhappy custodians of the Tate have willy-nilly acquired tons and acres of lowing kine, rearing horses, languorous ladies, idyllic landscapes and storm-beset ships-of-the-line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Out of the Basement | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

Meanwhile in Riviera this week, Ben Hogan was working methodically at bringing himself up to tournament pitch. He stared out ecstatically at Hogan's Alley, soggy with the heavy rains of the past two weeks, at the pitted greens. "I love the competition," he said. "I hope I'm not at the top of my game; I hope I'm getting better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Little Ice Water | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

Last week U.S. doctors talked back to Dr. Brailsford in sharp tones. His statements, snorted Dr. Russell Morgan, director of Johns Hopkins' department of radiology, were "totally contrary to the best medical thinking in this country at the present time." In the past six months, he said, X rays of the stomachs of 3,000 patients in Johns Hopkins' dispensary clinic turned up cancers in four people who had no symptoms whatever. Said Dr. Charles S. Cameron, medical and scientific director of the American Cancer Society: if a patient waits for symptoms of cancer, "all too often...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dissenting Voice | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

...Dark Past (Columbia) is a study of a vicious young killer (William Holden) who is as afraid of his own twisted dreams as he is of the law. When he escapes from prison and holes up with his pals in the weekend cottage of a shrewd psychiatrist (Lee J. Cobb), he finally learns from the doctor-too late-that an Oedipus complex has helped to give him a killer's warped personality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 10, 1949 | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

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