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Yet as the anonymous author for 15 years of the often wise, often witty column, "Topics of The Times," Strunsky had a far-darting eye. In a single week, he looked at plays of violence, Dartmouth College, the Marshall Plan, Herodotus, New Mexico (from dinosaurs to A-bombs), "Pretty Boy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Is That So? | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

Surgeons, because of better anesthetics, no longer have to fight tissues that are only partially relaxed; operating-table in juries are less severe, scars smaller. Surgeons have also become better-trained, gentler, more skillful seamsters ; penicillin arms them better against infection.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Better Operation | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

Murder mysteries are all the same, and the only way to judge them is to evaluate their treatment. There is nothing in the format of a who-dunit which will make a good film or be anything other than a common-place. But the producers of Sleep My Love have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 1/22/1948 | See Source »

As the personnel and equipment have changed, so have pinball habits and morals. The old master of the rolling sphere stood calm and upright by his machine, priming with but a gentle nudge at an opportune moment, playing a cautious, skillful, and fairly conservative game. In contrast to the suave...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brute Force Replacing Skill As Pinball Becomes Lost Art | 12/18/1947 | See Source »

Only readers whose interests were professional or personal could keep up with the year's output on Germany and the Nazis. Most important, as a historical document, was The Nuremberg Case as it was presented by U.S. Chief of Counsel Robert Jackson. Throughout the trial Captain G. M. Gilbert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Year in Books, Dec. 15, 1947 | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

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