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...biblical legend, the neglected brothers eventually sell the favorite down the river. When the law catches up with Papa Monetti's free-wheeling banking practices, the oldest brother (well played by Luther Adler) fixes it so that Conte gets a seven-year stretch in prison for trying to bribe the jury. The rest of the plot, including Conte's sultry romance with a rich play girl (Susan Hayward), is routine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jul. 18, 1949 | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

Then Ann Neville, a seven-year old girl, skimmed across the pool three times in a fine medley exhibition. Soon thereafter, her brother, five-year old Georgia, stole the diving show from a Miss Dean, a brown-skinned plunger of NYU and Bermuda Aquacade fame...

Author: By Gene R. Kearney, | Title: Health Hucksters Ogle Aquacaders | 4/22/1949 | See Source »

...jail atop Berkeley's two-story, grey stucco Hall of Justice the old crook, with the air of a man whose lifework was done, was garrulous about his career. Back in 1920, arrested for stealing a car, he learned safecracking from a fellow convict during a seven-year stretch in the New Mexico State Penitentiary in Santa Fe. Parry had stolen around $250,000 in his career, he bragged, and he had pulled 250 jobs. He didn't feel he had been greedy. Said he: "You've got to make a lot to get along. There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: No Future | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

Douglas had been known in Hollywood as a competent actor (The Walls of Jericho, A Letter to Three Wives'), but Champion promptly doubled his price per picture. Warner Brothers took one look and signed him up for a seven-year, nine-picture deal at just under $1,000,000. His first two pictures for Warner will be Dorothy Baker's Young Man with a Horn and Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie. He will also continue to do one film a year for Screen Plays, Inc., the welterweight studio which produced Champion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Apr. 11, 1949 | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

Revival after a seven-year lapse of Lowell tradition of presenting an opera annually has been received enthusiastically by Boston and Cambridge academic and society folk, who have swung a measure of financial support behind the project...

Author: By Alexander C. Hoagland, | Title: Lowell Music Group Revives 'Acis and Galatea' | 3/10/1949 | See Source »

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