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Jean Arthur, a visiting Congresswoman is flabbergasted to find John Lund, an American captain, fraternizing with Marlene Dietrich, the ex-mistress of a fugitive top Nazi. As bad or worse, Miss Dietrich is going around scot free; she is even singing in a nightclub. Millard Mitchell, a levelheaded, wisecracking colonel, does his best to calm Miss Arthur down; but since she is falling for Captain Lund, she doesn't calm easily. At long last she comes to realize that the Army always has its reasons: Miss Dietrich is being used to smoke her jealous Nazi lover out of hiding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 26, 1948 | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

...income people were en titled to free care; they were joined now by 14,500,000 more, a total of 36,700,000 out of a population of 41,460,000 in Eng land and Wales. (Separate but similar schemes started at the same time in Scot land and Northern Ireland.) Said one gleeful patient: "I've been paying my doctor ten shillings sixpence ($2.10) per visit twice a week. Now the fellow has to attend me for 15 bob a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: John Bull, M.D. | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

George A. Weller '29, foreign correspondent for the Chicago Daily News and a departing Nieman Fellow, acted as Toastmaster. He was introduced by R. Scot Leavitt '46, President during the Crime's actual anniversary year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crime Holds 'Seventy-Fifth' Banquet | 6/9/1948 | See Source »

House at Hell Gate. As head of the city's government, he lives at Gracie Mansion, a fine, 15-room Colonial house built in 1799 by one of the city's early merchant princes, a Scot named Archibald Gracie. Like many another New Yorker, O'Dwyer loves the house. It sits amid sweeping lawns just above the East River Drive near Hell Gate, a spot which General George Washington once fortified against the British. He is served by a maid, a cook, a gardener, a police chauffeur and a butler with an Irish brogue and a gift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: The Big Bonanza | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

...Forest invented the vacuum tube-a milestone for television as well as for radio. In 1923 a Russian immigrant, Dr. Vladimir K. Zworykin (now an RCA engineer) patented the iconoscope-the tube that changed television from a somewhat mechanical to a purely electronic science. In 1928, a Scot, John Logie Baird, telecast a woman's face from London to the S.S. Berengaria, 1,000 miles out at sea, and in the U.S. fuzzy facsimiles of Felix the Cat were televised. Three years later, in a Montclair, N.J. basement, Dr. Allen B. Du Mont brought forth a workable television receiver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Infant Grows Up | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

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