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...Flynn, Lana Turner, Ava Gardner, Gregory Peck -through a loophole in the tax law that forgives all if a taxpayer is out of the U.S. for 17 months out of 18. Van Johnson, Betty Hutton and Dorothy Lamour went back into vaudeville; Roz Russell and Bette Davis tried a retread on the legitimate stage; television sopped up Lucille Ball, Ann Sothern, Eve Arden and George Raft. Mike Romanoff, the royal restaurateur, made it final: "The motion picture community can no longer support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Strictly for the Marbles | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

...adrift and disgruntled, the Mad Major developed a crush on Adolf Hitler and peddled Nazi propaganda in England. Later he repented and served, a tired old retread, in the Royal Navy. Last week, lonely, broke and 61, he made something of a comeback...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Mad Major | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

...against some forceful battle sequences that make use of authentic stock war footage is a cast of not-so-authentic stock characters. Among them: a hardboiled, softhearted colonel (Frank Lovejoy);* a boy who becomes a man under fire (Rusty Tamblyn); a retread captain (Richard Carlson); and, for laughs, a Southern marine who wisecracks during the Korean action: "This is one war that makes sense-North against the South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 24, 1952 | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

Another Pamela or, Virtue Still Rewarded, by Upton Sinclair. A California goat-girl resists almost all temptations and marries into the Big Rich; a retread of Richardson's 18th Century novel in which Sinclair gives his old aversion to wealth a fresh spin (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable, Jun. 5, 1950 | 6/5/1950 | See Source »

Another Pamela or, Virtue Still Rewarded, by Upton Sinclair. A California goat-girl resists almost all temptations and marries into the Big Rich; a retread of Richardson's 18th Century novel in which Sinclair gives his old aversion to wealth a fresh spin, mostly good-humored (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable, May 29, 1950 | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

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