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...Miracle," the story of a feeble-minded sheperdess who is seduced by a stranger she thinks is St. Joseph, was passed by New York's official censors and praised by film critics. Nevertheless, certain religious groups found the picture objectionable and are now trying to impose their moral judgment on the rest of the population by pressure and intimidation...
Later, she visited her son again and confided that he had "had a crying spell." She added: "But he's got lots of git and will come out on top. You'll see." She said a stranger had telephoned and promised Bob a new car when he is discharged. An anonymous donor had already had a television set installed in his room. "People are very considerate," she said. "But all we want now is some rest and quiet. Bob's not licked...
...tastes do change. When Peter Blume's big, weird, neatly painted South of Scranton won the coveted Carnegie International prize 16 years ago, critics clucked and the public pooh-poohed. This year the Carnegie jury went overboard for a yet stranger painting by Paris Abstractionist Jacques Villon (TIME, Oct. 30). The Pittsburgh public, meanwhile, has caught up with Connecticut's Blume. When the ballots were counted, the popular prize went to his entry, The Rock...
McDonald has scheduled three Phone-vision showings daily (at 4, 7 and 9 p.m.), and the films move progressively each day from one time period to another. The 300 Phonevision subscribers had an initial choice of April Showers, a 1948 musical starring Jack Carson; Welcome Stranger, a 1947 Bing Crosby comedy, and 1948's Homecoming, with Clark Gable and Lana Turner. Explained McDonald: "It wouldn't be a real test if we had only the best. Our sole interest is to find out the public reaction to Phonevision...
...Supplement" issue of November 25, 1950, on page one you have a photograph which is a prime illustration of how pictures can lie. The picture purports to show three Yalies dressed in raccoon coats, and hence to illustrate a fashion trend at Yale. One of these men is a stranger to me, but I am willing to be that he is no Yale man, because the two with he is shown are fellow Princeton '45 classmates of mine. The fellow in the middle is Jim Mills, and on the right stands Pete Throop. Both got their raccoon coats at Princeton...