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...like a Chinese lantern, peered fitfully through the clammy fog. It was a raw night, and Parisians pulled their coats tightly around them as they hurried back to unheated homes. Beside me, huddled in muffler and tattered topcoat, Anatole Carvin, 61, sat on a rickety stool and hawked his roast chestnuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: So Little Time | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

Kiss of Death. A tough, scary semi-documentary about a stool pigeon; well played by Victor Mature and Richard Widmark (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Nov. 10, 1947 | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

Kiss of Death. A tough, scary semi-documentary about a stool pigeon; well played by Victor Mature and Richard Widmark (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Oct. 20, 1947 | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

Discussing the individual sections of the law, Pressman particularly condemned its restriction of union elections and negotiations until the union in question has been cleared by a certificate from the National Labor Relations Board. As a result of this provision, he said, two or three "stool pigeons" can delay progress of union activities indefinitely by swearing that they have been intimidated into joining the union...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Taft-Hartley Law Is Fatal to Labor, Claims CIO Counsel | 10/16/1947 | See Source »

Kiss of Death. A hard, cold yarn about a burglar who turns stool pigeon, with Victor Mature, Richard Widmark and vivid real-life settings (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CURRENT & CHOICE: Cinema, Oct. 13, 1947 | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

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