Word: stupids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME'S apologies to Empire for a stupid error - by a moribund copy-reader...
...Chopin cycle. In a cottage in the French Alps Brailowsky card-catalogued all of Chopin's piano pieces. For months he played a new game of solitaire, juggling the Chopin cards into six well-balanced programs. Said he: "To play them in chronological order would have been a stupid idea. Often I spent hours trying to decide if a certain etude should go before a mazurka or after...
...This attitude," claimed Fairbank, "is most obvious in the case of militaryminded Americans who sincerely belive that we should support any regime aborad which will oppose Russia. We appear in China to be not only selfish and stupid, but dishonest as well...
...plays the Concerto twenty-seven times and addresses Goronoff incessantly as "Maestro." At her New York debut she plays guess what too well to suit Goronoff's touchy ego, so they split and she marries a Pennsylvania farmer who's Almost as good and kind as he is stupid. After a number of obvious events masquerading as developments, one of which has Myra's daughter play the thirty-third excerpt from the Concerto, Myra discovers that she doesn't love Concnoff after all but has always a loved her husband. Careful observers yesterday noted the resemblance between this sentiment...
...Nebenzal-United Artists) never runs quite fast enough to catch up with its good thriller beginning. A broke and hungry ex-G.I. (Robert Cummings) finds a bill-heavy pocketbook on a Miami sidewalk and returns the lost property to its gangster owner (Steve Cochran). Highly amused by such "stupid" honesty, the gangster and his henchman (Peter Lorre) give Cummings a job as chauffeur...