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As a front-line correspondent who took all the risks and hardships of the combat troops, he was generous, amiable and liked the work. His fellow correspondents all liked him. MacArthur called him "Bill," and last week saluted his "superb service." One of his talents was as a wildly skillful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jan. 22, 1945 | 1/22/1945 | See Source »

The Hasty Heart (by John Patrick; produced by Howard Lindsay and Russel Grouse) adds up-or rather, whittles down -to a very interesting evening. In sterner and more skillful hands, this tale of the thawing out of a man who locked the bitter herbs of loneliness in the ice of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Jan. 15, 1945 | 1/15/1945 | See Source »

First War. The Golden Rooms is the second volume of Vardis Fisher's imaginative reconstruction of primitive human life. First: Darkness and the Deep. The work of an Idaho-born realist whose straightforward, unadorned stories of Mormon farm life were too bitter for many readers, The Golden Rooms is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Prehistoric Man | 1/15/1945 | See Source »

The reasons were by no means the ones that might be crudely assumed of such a face in so wolfish a world. Colby is probably the most experienced and skillful intercepter of passes in America. She succeeded then, as she has succeeded in Hollywood, because she had friends in top...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cover Girl | 1/8/1945 | See Source »

But the characterizations in Captain from Castile are too sharp, the historical material too exact, to allow the book to be dismissed as merely a skillful costume thriller. Its language is sometimes too high flown, its plot too intricate and too neat, to satisfy the exacting requirements of serious literature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Non-Stop Adventure | 1/8/1945 | See Source »

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