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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...offices of Rudé Právo a copy of TIME displayed, not prominently, but easily seen. It was the issue of December 29 with a picture of the Virgin and Child on the cover. When I asked the old woman in charge of the stand what sort of magazine it was, she winked at me and said it was an 'art' magazine. I asked if I might buy it. 'No,' she said, 'leave it for those who need...
...cities." But "there would be no objection to using it against a military target (if such were found)-which could be attacked without injury to human beings; but if human beings were involved, it would be necessary to take into account peculiar properties of the bomb that appear to sort ill with the object of warfare, which is to overpower the enemy without doing more harm than necessary...
...Daughter (MGM) dilutes the never-too-potent subacids of J. P. Marquand's socio-political satire into the sort of eyewash that is the chief ingredient of every "woman's picture." Marquand fans may be surprised at how easily the acid lost its effect; most moviegoers are sure to blink unhappily at what is left...
More than 40 years ago, when Eleonora Duse was making her long faces and Weber and Fields their happy ones, a different sort of team was approaching its half-century mark with a very untheatrical announcement. "If you don't know Billings and Stover," said the notice, "this will introduce them." But there was no need to be theatrical for this partnership was as familiar to Harvard students as the pump in the Yard and the new lecture hall across the way. Too familiar, perhaps, for countless men would pull the bell out front to see if there really...
...Grenell has not figured out the basic cause of the dramatic variations; he thinks that there must be some sort of metabolic upset in the brain cells of schizophrenic patients. Last week he was experimenting with his little black box to find out if age, sex, pregnancy or serious illness can affect his readings...