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...check their results, the astronomers calculated how much radio energy is sent out by the Milky Way galaxy, another vast swirl of billions of stars, of which the sun is a part. Then they calculated what this radio source would look like to their radio telescope if it were as far away as the Andromeda nebula. The calculations showed that it would look much the same. This went far to prove what astronomers had long suspected: the Milky Way galaxy is a "twin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Waves from Space | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

Such beliefs lead him to take an indulgent view of Kavanagh, a lusty fishmonger who has murdered a servant girl in a swirl of passion. They also lead Ezra to seduce Romilly, the sister of his friend Father Mellowes, simply because he wants to "wipe some of that look of innocence off her face." In long conversations, Ezra and Father Mellowes conclude that the greatest human sin is indifference and that Christ "liked anyone who let themselves be carried away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Down with Duck Ponds | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

...trick of squaring the new U.S. anti-Communist law (TIME, Oct. 2) with hemisphere policy kept the State Department in a swirl last week. One provision of the law requires State to refuse visas to "totalitarians." Did that mean supporters of the strong-arm regimes which run such good neighbors as Argentina, the Dominican Republic, Peru or Venezuela...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who's a Totalitarian? | 10/16/1950 | See Source »

...playing time, the TV Othello became a taut, single-minded study of the crack-up of the tormented Moor (played by Britain's Torin Thatcher) under the evil persistence of lago (Alfred Ryder). Producer Fred Coe managed to fill, but not clutter, the TV screen with a swirl of movement, created a sense of space by letting his cameras probe down colonnaded halls and into drapery-hung apartments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Noble Experiment | 9/4/1950 | See Source »

...sudden swirl of theatrical plans and promises, no one else even mentioned the original cause of Washington's 19 theaterless months. At some point during the long drought, the main issue seemed to have died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Comeback | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

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