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*The docker had distinguished company in his assertion. Last week George Bernard Shaw came up with a belated version of Franklin Roosevelt's abandoned Passamaquoddy project of 1935. G.B.S. proposed harnessing the swirling tides in Scotland's narrow inlets to avert future crises. He added a petulant note...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Panorama by Candlelight | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

Editor Harold Dean Cater's title is one way of saying that petulant, sardonic little (5 ft. 4 in.) Adams, for all his quirks and squints, had many friends. His red brick Richardsonian mansion on Washington's H Street, completed, after his wife's death in 1885...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jeremiah on H Street | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

Shaw once wrote that "Caesar is greater off the battlefield than on it." Claude Rains's excellent performance makes that observation valid. As for Vivien Leigh, probably few actresses could have drawn as much fun, understanding and beauty out of Shaw's exquisite, violent, brilliant baby Queen. There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Aug. 19, 1946 | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

The Stranger's details-a tight script, murky lighting, feverish camera angles, brooding background music-are deftly synchronized to the prevailing mood of uneasiness. All of the acting is well above par. There is hardly a trace of Little Caesar in Edward G. Robinson's implacable G-man...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 17, 1946 | 6/17/1946 | See Source »

Isn't it about time that you put a stop to the . . . odoriferous flatulence of the monomaniacal person who does your purported music criticism? It does not seem just and fair to permit a crank to vent this malignity time after time, especially concerning a subject which does not allow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 1/11/1946 | See Source »

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