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...turns in the scariest performance of the season as the over-talkative, pathological Jew-hater. Gloria Grahame is one of the very few well-baked tarts in any recent movie. And Paul Kelly has some remarkably effective moments as the man who hangs around her headquarters like an unwanted stray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Aug. 4, 1947 | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

...nothing but a couple of sparrows, a flock of pigeons and a mallard duck, which I rashly identified as a peacock. After several hours I was chilled to the bone, bitten everywhere by bugs, scratched on the face by some pesky twigs, and firmly determined never again to stray from a city pavement. The Perkinses managed to find some unusual birds. All I spotted was a robin-first of the season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jul. 14, 1947 | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

...hunter's stray bullet forced down Hollywood Hero Jon Hall's private plane, and Hall rose to the occasion. The bullet had just missed him, he told the breathless press. "You'd think the war was still on," he added.* With him, said Hall, was his blues-singing wife, Frances Langford. The publicity was wonderful. Next day it was not so wonderful. Pressed for details, Hall finally confessed that neither he nor his wife had been in the plane at the time. Said he: "I wish this would be forgotten. Too much fuss has been made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 30, 1947 | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

Students, professors, 'Cliffed wellers, and any stray music lovers who pass by are invited to listen, and to join the chores in singing College songs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Full Glee Club Will Sing from Widener Steps Tomorrow in First of Two Yard Concerts | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

Life on the Volga. The outskirts are full of little 50 by 60 plots, fenced in with any stray piece of wood or wire. Kids romp in the wide-rutted clay streets, while fathers & mothers are off rebuilding the city, and an old babushka hangs out the washing on a line stretched over a gooseberry bush from a young peach tree to a young cherry tree. Even in the middle of the city, chickens scrabble among the ruins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A REPORTER AMONG THE PEOPLE | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

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