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Cabot has discovered what most local gentry already know. A suitor never looks a gift-horse in the mouth, a Radcliffe girl in the face, or a sock in the heel. Both knitting and digging develop the wrong muscles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe Indian-giver Shrinks; Washed Up Suitor Bares Hose | 2/19/1949 | See Source »

Command Decision largely ignores the men who handled the planes, although most of the film's emotional sock is in the bit parts of the men who flew missions, well played by John Hodiak, Cameron Mitchell, Marshall Thompson and Michael Steele. Like the play and the book before it, the movie makes out a sympathetic case for the desk-bound generals and echoes Novelist-War Correspondent Ernest Hemingway's observation that generals are good people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 24, 1949 | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

...getting the treatment because he wants to rescue Alexis from her sinister mate (Zachary Scott) and retire from bad fights to paint bad pictures. The catch is that the wicked husband is paralyzed from the waist down, and thinks up his villainies in a wheelchair. No hero can sock a man in a wheelchair; no heroine can divorce him. How to get rid of him? Whiplash solves the problem in characteristically brisk and brutal fashion by having him mashed to a pulp, wheelchair & all, by a taxi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 17, 1949 | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

Four sophomores in Jordan House, rising in ire at what they termed "alienation of Smith's affections for Harvard," offered to prove to any Crimson sock fancier that they knit much more bejeweled patterns than Radcliffe does...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Smith Purlers at It Again . . . | 10/22/1948 | See Source »

Senator Taylor promptly made the most of it. In his Senate office, he hoisted his trouser leg, dropped his sock, and displayed a four-inch scratch suffered, he said, when a Birmingham policeman shoved him into a wire fence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THIRD PARTIES: With Publicity for All | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

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