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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Solomon R. Guggenheim, 88, last of the seven Guggenheim brothers who, with their father, a Swiss-born peddler of household knickknacks, ran a $25,000 investment in two Colorado silver mines into one of the world's largest fortunes; in Port Washington, N.Y. With earnings from his share...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 14, 1949 | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

Six months ago, she had worked herself to a frazzle, complicated by insomnia and jitters for which she had long been trying to doctor herself. After she had a series of temperamental blowups on the set of Annie Get Your Gun, M-G-M suspended her and tackled the expensive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Working Girl | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

Battleground (MGM) is a story about the Battle of the Bulge. Filmed with a sentimental, Mauldin-type humor and some standard war movie heroics, it concentrates on one squad of the 101st Airborne Division, which was enveloped near Bastogne by the surprise Nazi breakthrough of December 1944. The eight-day...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 14, 1949 | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

Dirty Looks. Venus had some right to feel dissatisfied with life on Olympus. Juno was forever quarreling with Jupiter, and whenever the conversation got lively she was apt to interrupt with, "Would you mind, all of you, finishing your soup before it's cold?" or "Don't forget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Things Homer Never Knew | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

Her husband's idea in sending her to Mulberry was to insure her safety. Mary expected to be bored to death. For one thing, her father-in-law, Colonel James Chesnut, was 91, blind and deaf. But, as it turned out, Mary felt neither entirely bored nor entirely safe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: 1861-65, Unexpurgated | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

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