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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Geoffrey earns $60 a week. They live in a pleasant, tree-lined suburban road at Heston, in a house with three bedrooms and two living rooms. Geoffrey hocked himself to the ears to buy the house. Before the war, it would have cost $3,800; as it was, it cost $9,600. Geoffrey put down $400 saved from his war pay, borrowed $4,800 from a building society and another $4,400 from an uncle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: How People Rise & Fall | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

Dartmouth didn't wait for the Colonel to get mad. It hastily sent 2,000 key alumni a fill-in on what was up. Correspondent Griffin, the Hanover Bulletin pointed out sympathetically, "is a pleasant fellow, but there was no doubt . . . he had been sent on a mission and that he was mostly interested in proving a point. For example, he said . . . 'if the Colonel says to do a story to prove that the moon is green, we go out and prove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Moon Is Green | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...season's opener against Georgetown proved to be a pleasant surprise on the Hill. Even though Georgetown was strictly an unknown quantity, the Crusaders demonstrated so much superiority over them that the experts began to think the system was progressing more rapidly than expected. Osmanski's T continued to look unusually efficient the following week, when the Purple racked up a 33-7 count against Syracuse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cross Brings Bear 'T' into Stadium Tilt | 10/30/1948 | See Source »

...long as the story sets up problems for bouncy, pregnant Peggy (Jeanne Crain) and her glum G.I. husband (William Holden)-and answers their problems with advice from Socrates and Spinoza-Apartment for Peggy is a pleasant little movie flavored with idealism. Then it spills over into woman's magazine fiction and some heavy bathos about a retired philosophy professor (Edmund Gwenn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 25, 1948 | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

...Luck of the Irish. A pleasant little comedy that rises above its title, with Cecil Kellaway, Anne Baxter, Tyrone Power (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Oct. 25, 1948 | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

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