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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they had a grandstand view of the fighting, in which 300 died. Cabled TIME Correspondent Tom Dozier: "Outside the hotel lie the bodies of two men and one woman who climbed atop one of the tanks that moved through the mob to defend the Presidential Palace. Government riflemen lying prone in the street popped them off at short range. One fell beneath the tank's treads and his head was crushed. It is not a pretty sight...
...most popular painter in the world today is probably Vincent Van Gogh. The public of today, that honors him, is prone to feel superior to his own public of yesterday, that ignored him, and to forget that a better way to judge its taste is in the respect it pays to the original talents of its own day. The 14 Van Gogh masterpieces on exhibition in a Manhattan gallery last week had all been painted in the last years of his life. Looking back, it was hard to see how anyone could have been blind to them...
Middle class folks,* the doctors reported in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association, are particularly prone to psychosomatic (mindbody) troubles and chronic illnesses. One big reason is the American yen for "making good." The middle class works especially hard at trying to make good. The constant effort produces strains and tensions (people "feel the necessity to improve their condition, rather than to enjoy their existence"), which in turn produce unhappiness and maladjustments...
...Because of deep-rooted racial and cultural and business ties, we are prone to overconcentrate on happenings and events to our east and to underemphasize the importance of those to our west. America's past lies deeply rooted in the areas across the Atlantic, but the hope of American generations of the future . . . lies no less in the happenings and events across the Pacific...
Hung on the framework of a real case which could not be more exciting, the picture presents a wealth of argument towards "One World." Yet this is not the painfully obvious propaganda that Hollywood is so prone to wallow in. The moral is not forced down our throats, but contained naturally in a factual document, and thereby carries all the more weight. As a matter of fact, the film had its premiere before the UN at Lake Success. Movies like this are what make the condition of the American moving picture industry seem not so hopeless after all. E.P.R...