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...equipment consisted of a 20-year-old oak rod, an 18-year-old reel and a 36-thread linen line-the same slender line the experts used in the tuna-fishing tournaments. He caught his own bait, a small mackerel. Then he hired 65-year-old veteran Guide Percy MacRitchie to row him out to the tuna grounds in an 18-ft. dory. The sea was calm-until the big fish struck. Hodgson struck back, hooking the fish with all the weight of his solid (190 Ibs., 6 ft. 3 in.) frame. The battle began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Good Catch | 9/18/1950 | See Source »

...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 »

...skipping from one point on the time track to another, the patient eventually relives a variety of painful experiences. In so doing, he may reel from the relived pain of a blow on the head, double up with stomach cramps, sweat or shiver in terror. Once these painful engrams have been run through the waking analytical mind, says Hubbard, they lose their "charge"-their power of evil. The analytical mind puts them in a dead file like so many closed accounts. The final goal of dianetics-in its own jargon-is to make the patient a "clear," a person whose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Of Two Minds | 7/24/1950 | See Source »

Producer Stanley (Champion, Home of the Brave) Kramer's film is especially notable for avoiding the slick solution and the easy out. It is not a picture in which faith-healers or master surgeons, in the last reel, make cripples walk again. Its basic theme is courage-courage in the face of utter hopelessness. It eloquently shows that cripples cannot get along with the world or themselves-and neither, for that matter, can normal people-unless they face reality and come to terms with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jul. 24, 1950 | 7/24/1950 | See Source »

Hollywood lost no time getting into the Korean war. Within 48 hours, Republic Pictures released a one-reel The Battle for Korea rushed 3,000 prints out to U.S. exhibitors. Less enterprising studios hastily staked claims to likely-looking titles. Last week the Motion Picture Association of America reported that its lists of registered titles already include: Korea, South Korea, Crisis in Korea, The 38th Parallel, 38° Parallel, North of the 38th Parallel, Formosa, Indo-China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Titles | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

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