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...great waste of costly Technicolor and able actors. It sacrifices such good comedy performers as Charles Coburn and Charlotte Greenwood to a humorless, embarrassingly juvenile farce about the efforts of a professor's daughter (Diana Lynn) to escape coronation as queen of the Rose Bowl. For colored-postcard enthusiasts who sit it out, the last reel offers some views of Pasadena's Tournament of Roses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Aug. 7, 1950 | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

Power of the Pen. In Knoxville, Tenn., Mrs. Julia Gideon Whaley was granted a divorce after she showed the court a postcard addressed to her on which her husband had written a little verse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 17, 1950 | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

Last week the directors gave in. They placed an order for 20,000 posters and 100,000 postcard reproductions of the painting, duly dispatched a Fiat "1400" to Painter de Chirico in return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Pegasus of Turin | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

...Buckley, Jr., member of the Yale University debating team that bowled over Oxford on Socialism, has certainly given the rest of us something to think about--about the responsibilities of university and college trustees for purposeless policies in education. For free printed copies of this interview just drop a postcard to AMERICA'S FUTURE in care of the station to which you are now listening. . . Ask for "Buckley of Yale." . . . Now this is Bill Slater, saying goodbye--and reminding you, wherever you are, whatever you do, SPEAK UP AMERICANS . . . for America...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 6/7/1950 | See Source »

...think it is the greatest honor in the world simply to be a citizen of the United States," said he. The President remarked indignantly that his morning mail had included a postcard from a Californian who thought that Americans should "surrender to Russia" because it would be better for them to lose their freedom than lose their lives in a war. "Now what do you think of that?" the President exclaimed. "That is Patrick Henry in reverse, if I know anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The President's Week, Jun. 5, 1950 | 6/5/1950 | See Source »

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