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For Haas was a Jew, and the case against him rested more on the emotion of prejudice than the reason of evidence. The motion picture does not have to deviate in the least from the actual case in showing how Haas suffered for a crime he had not committed, just...

Author: By Daniel B. Jacobs, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 4/25/1950 | See Source »

Most of the rest of the U.S. News case rested on a "secret" experimental Navy plane, the XF5U or "flying pancake," which was developed by the Navy and the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. But the fact was that only one full-scale plane of the XF5U type was ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Saucer-Eyed Dragons | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

In a small clearing the expedition found three deserted straw shacks. On a table in one rested a freshly cut papaya. In another coolie clothes hung on a peg. Chickens scratched in a tiny garden patch. As they pulled away, the French tossed a grenade into a frail native dugout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDO-CHINA: Mosquitoes &the Sledge Hammer | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

Had he been of different temperament, Professor Francis Otto Matthiessen of Harvard University might well have rested content with his fame as a scholar. He was a bookish bachelor of mild manner and quiet voice, whose name had become one of the best known in the faculty. To his students...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: What I Have To Do | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

Depth paid off for the Elis, who put rested men in the water for every event. Only six men represented the Crimson, and most of these had to swim three times: the five minute rest-periods were too short for the swimmers to regain their wind.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Court, Swimming, Squash Teams Beaten | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

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