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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pravda team relayed a Newsweek poll of U.N. correspondents, which had found that 62% do not believe that the U.S. delegation's policy at Lake Success has strengthened the U.N. Then Izakov & Zhukov quoted Newsweek as saying: "A study of the data of the questionnaire shows that apparently the majority of American correspondents at the Assembly are not sincere in praising the American position in their daily correspondence." There was only one thing wrong with this "quotation." Newsweek never said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: What Is Truth? | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

...divorce, Kay put on her act in a nightclub show to pass the time, and surprised even her own confident self by bringing the house down. Teamed up with the Williams Brothers, a quartet from Iowa who had knocked about on their own for about ten years with little success, she was ready for Ciro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dizzy-Making | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

...best British films, in short, have been very good, but they have been almost exclusively concerned with revealing English life and virtue. When they have strayed from familiar surroundings they have been occasionally successful as in 'Great Expectations," but more often they have not as witness "Cacsar and Cleopatra" "Men of Two Worlds," or the current "Beware of Pity." The same indictment cannot be applied to the fine picture that now and then rears up out of Hollywood's commercial quicksand. "The Informer," "Emile Zola," "Ninotchke," or "The Good Earth," support this view. American film makers have many times examined...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: All's Not Well With English Films | 11/8/1947 | See Source »

...stories succeed, largely because they focus on a concrete event; but the third, called "Apprentice," is nothing but a long, almost pointless narrative that is written carelessly. "The Prisoner," by Roger Princerd, is the high point of the magazine, owing its success to a straightforward and unpretentious style, and to having the solid basis of one realistic incident. The story of a stowaway being back to Poland from America, it remains objective and lucid throughout...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On The Shelf | 11/8/1947 | See Source »

...touches in the solo made this selection attractive enough to smother the tastes of a poorly-directed "Promised Land" from "Porgy and Bess." In any event football classics such as "Going Back" would up the program to establish a final fresh collegiate taste that spells an audience verdict of success for the annual event...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Music Box | 11/8/1947 | See Source »

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