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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unlike Moby Dick, I Want You will not become a classic. Nor is it about whales. As a matter of fact, the only point of similarity is that the picture can be looked at from seven different sides--or on seven different levels, if you prefer--all at one sitting. Forthwith the levels...

Author: By David L. Ratner, | Title: The Moviegoer | 1/9/1952 | See Source »

NORTH ATLANTIC ALLIANCE. The British, particularly Old School Diplomat Eden, want to streamline NATO's cumbersome, committe-laden machinery. They prefer small, intimate sessions, with a few men holding strong powers of decision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Churchill Goes to Washington | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

...small band of Pogophiles prefer to say that Pogo was reborn in 1948. From 1943 until 1946, he appeared bimonthly in a comic-book format that was almost totally ignored by the intelligentsia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Possum with Snob Appeal | 12/31/1951 | See Source »

...from it. The report notes admiringly: "Some peasants have undertaken to adopt the pattern of an agricultural cooperative. Under this system the land would be collectively cultivated and the produce distributed according to the members' contribution of labor and land." Obviously, the 42.3% of the peasants who still prefer to "work by themselves" and "yearn for the capitalist way of getting rich" might profitably remember what happened to the Russian kulak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Frank Admissions | 12/24/1951 | See Source »

...would be a major target for Russian attack-with or without U.S. bases. The best guess is that Prime Minister Churchill is using the East Anglia issue, as he is several others (e.g. his stout refusal to abandon plans for a .280-caliber rifle, when most of the allies prefer the U.S. .30-caliber), as bargaining points for his business visit to Washington next month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Arms & the Man | 12/17/1951 | See Source »

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