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Christmas Eve (Boqeous; United Artists), a less appetizing holiday confection, concerns an eccentric old gotrocks (Ann Harding) and her far-flung adopted sons (George Raft, George Brent, Randolph Scott). They surmount the world, the flesh and the devil to reach her side on Christmas Eve-just in time to save her from the booby hatch for spending $500,000 on 500,000 dead rats. Producer Benedict Bogeaus spent considerably more on this dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 8, 1947 | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

...armies had given him the city of Antung. His people paraded, ate "longevity noodles," displayed a million photographs and set off a billion firecrackers. In recently starving Hunan Province, his statue would soon surmount a mountain peak. Over Nanking, formations of Chinese airforce planes spelled out "six ten longevity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Happy Birthday | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

...effort it may make to cooperate with the Protestants ... in even so vast a cause.... Its solemn claim to be the exclusive and infallible authority in all things spiritual ... [is] a hurdle which only a holy passion for the security of the world can enable it to surmount...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Our Duty Is Plain | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

...problems, kept charging ahead. Result: the rubber program is shaping up excellently. Then, wholly uninfected by Washington, he announced that, barring production mishaps, he would resign on July 1 and go back to his job as president of Union Pacific. This was cheering news; apparently one man could surmount the lure of the spotlight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bull Bill | 4/26/1943 | See Source »

There was West Point, where he had spent five years instead of four, because of certain curricular difficulties which took more than blood and guts to surmount...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: The Fight Against the Champ | 4/12/1943 | See Source »

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