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Miss Sadie Thompson (Columbia) is at least the third major screen version of the Somerset Maugham story about a missionary and a prostitute on a South Sea island. This one offers Rita Hayworth in the tart part made famous on the stage by Jeanne Eagels (Rain, 1922), and on the screen by Gloria Swanson (1928) and Joan Crawford (1932). Actress Hayworth adds no new luster to the old story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 28, 1953 | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

...Adventures of Augie March, by Saul Bellow. A Chicago tough guy discovers his destiny with the help of the Harvard Classics and a beautiful tart (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Nov. 9, 1953 | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

...Adventures of Augie March, by Saul Bellow. A Chicago tough guy discovers his destiny with the help of the Harvard Classics and a beautiful tart (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Nov. 2, 1953 | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

...Frenchmen. The crux of France's wine problem is overproduction of poor, low-priced grades. Almost half of France's home-wine crop comes from le Midi méditerranéen, roughly the region between Marseille and the Pyrenees. It is cheap, tart wine, and much of it is mixed with Algerian wine and sold as vin rouge, which must be consumed quickly, or it will turn sour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: The Grapes of Wrath | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

...Adventures of Augie March, by Saul Bellow. A Chicago tough guy discovers his destiny with the help of the larvard Classics and a beautiful tart TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Oct. 12, 1953 | 10/12/1953 | See Source »

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