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...those soft, goreless westerns, and it pleases neither the addict nor the casual moviegoer. What it lacks mainly is an original gimmick to replace the familiar action. Without this the movie is a formless as a jellyfish and generates about the same interest. Joel McCrea portrays a sincere bank-robber who hoists 2,000 realm of New Mexican sandstone wishing to hell he hadn't taken the dough. He falls in love with a nice-looking girl, does a few good deeds, said turns himself in before things...

Author: By George G. Daniels, | Title: Four Faces West | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...including some 15 million lives. The Kremlin, having an absolute monopoly on all business, fixes absurdly low prices on the goods it buys, absurdly high ones on the goods it sells. Thus Russia employs a sort of perverted capitalism-"capitalism gone totalitarian . . . more ruthless than that of any American robber baron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Inquisitive American | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...Federal Council of Churches and brother of Republican Senator Robert A. Taft, promptly tried to modify the condemnation of capitalism. He proposed inserting the phrase "the wholly self-regulating laissez-faire theory of capitalism" (i.e., pushing the condemnation back to the days of the 19th Century robber barons). The council accepted only the adjective "laissez-faire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: No Pentecost | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

Thirty years ago British police in Malaya imported 50 headhunting Dvaks from the jungles of North Borneo. Their mission was to hunt down the robber chieftain Chang Lun, whose little band of terrorists ruled the Kinta valley in the border state of Perak, the British Empire's richest tin-mining zone. Armed with six-foot sumpitans (blowpipes) and keen, long-bladed parangs, the naked warriors snaked through the jungles to Chang Lun's hideout and nabbed their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MALAYA: Bad Men in the Jungle | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

...talked candidly. But his eyes were fixed on the agent, and especially on the revolver which he carried in an open holster on his belt. As the agent leaned forward to write, Fox grabbed the pistol, got the end under his chin and pulled the trigger. The old bank robber toppled backward, dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Dead End | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

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