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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alice In Wonderland. Freshman Douglas stood his ground. He was as solid as any man for civil rights. But, he cried, "What would happen if we adopted the Bricker amendment? The answer is very simple. It would inevitably defeat the whole housing bill itself . . . It is no idle mind reading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Ohio Fish Fry | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

For moviegoers who remember them in Flying Down to Rio (1933), the impersonation doesn't quite come off. For one thing, time-even in Hollywood-has not stood still. Ginger and Fred are no longer quite up to the soaring, smoothly paced routines of the '305. Also missing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 25, 1949 | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

Mozart's intention is somewhat less clear. The composer may have been writing for an early piano, though it was used interchangeably with the harpsichord in his time. In any case, he did occasionally make excessive demands on a harpsichord, and these were noticeable in the thumping of the coupled...

Author: By Herbert P. Gleason, | Title: The Music Box | 4/22/1949 | See Source »

The diving is nothing short of superb. Vicki Draves is an extraordinary performer, and her husband Lyle is almost as good. But the finest dive of the evening is performed by someone I have never heard of, and whose name I cannot remember. It is a combination backward somersault--two...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Sporting Scene | 4/20/1949 | See Source »

Washington readers could not remember a time when their daily newspapers had missed publication-until last week. Then a wildcat strike of A.F.L. pressmen shut down the capital's four dailies for a day, until the International Union ordered the strikers back. This week the pressmen struck again, after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Strike in Washington | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

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