Word: riches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Razor Blades & Babies. He was visiting Mexico in 1942 when the U.S. and Britain put him on their economic black list (TIME, June 29, 1942). This shut him off from his Swedish empire, but he fortunately made an influential new friend, the late Maximino Avila Camacho, enormously rich and powerful brother of then-President Manuel Avila Camacho. Wenner-Gren also had some spare change with him, $1 or $2 million. With Maximino's help he put the money to work...
...bright-colored packaging of Samuel Shellabarger's best-selling historical novel about the era of Cortes. Tyrone Power keeps a medium-tight rein on his passionate Spanish nature; Lee J. Cobb is a boozer who likes disguises; Cesar Romero-a rather thin Stout Cortes-wears a rich black beard. Newcomer Jean Peters plays a pretty, vacuous runaway barmaid who is described, enthusiastically, as "a wench for the New World." Thomas Gomez, in priestly robes, puts forward a few ill-chosen words in favor of the conquest of Mexico (something a few centuries too soon, for a churchman of imperial...
Twenty-five feet down, in a wooden coffin, the diggers say they found the mummified body of a young girl, almost perfectly preserved. She must have been the daughter, wife or favorite of a man of consequence; her clothes, still in good condition, were rich with fur and ornaments. She had a mirror of polished silver alloy and golden jeweled earrings. Close at hand were primitive musical instruments. (These and the girl's unusually long and slender fingers suggested to one of the romantic, but not very scientific, diggers that she may have been a musician...
...Deadly. In the clean-scrubbed,workaday words of the scientists, the book describes "techniques and results." The very fact that such a book can be published without revealing any real secrets stresses a verbal warning by Dr. Rosebury: "Bacterial warfare can be developed by any nation, large or small, rich or poor, to which the resources of modern bacteriology are available." "Resources," in this case, can mean almost any sort of laboratory...
Daisy Kenyan (20th Century-Fox) will probably strike soap-opera fans as a pretty intriguing and knotty Problem Drama. Will Daisy (Joan Crawford), a well-heeled but struggling commercial artist, pry dashing Dana Andrews loose from his rich, neurotic wife (Ruth Warrick)? Or do Dana's little daughters mean too much to him? Or will Joan marry Henry Fonda, a widower and ex-soldier so little in touch with this world that he even forgets to keep a date with...