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...Force does not think that its "Safe Speed Chart" will tempt many pilots to fly into thunderstorms unless they have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Inside a Thunderstorm | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

...tries to commit the perfect crime, by murdering his wife's lover. Eric Portman is wearily proficient as the murderer; Greta Gynt is blowsily sexy as the wife. The forces of British law & order are, as usual, so immaculately polite about their business that it might tempt some U.S. observers to mayhem, just for the pleasure of meeting them. Occasionally there is a flicker of ingenuity or fright, but most of this picture is sad, stock-company stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing May 24, 1948 | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

...beginning of an average day in their Manhattan apartment. Even for a $15,000 income-grouper, the Blandings apartment seems rather spacious (you could encamp a platoon of homeless veterans in the parlor alone); but the closet space is convincingly niggardly, and the bathroom problem is enough to tempt anyone to the wide open spaces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Apr. 5, 1948 | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

...swing political fortunes either way. Should Mr. Truman concur with his generally conservative Cabinet and approve the bill, he will not only commit his party to a course almost parallel to the Republican route, but also will keep the desperate unions away from the polls next year, or possibly tempt them to form a third party under eager Henry Wallace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thumbs Down | 6/19/1947 | See Source »

Heath had killed two girls; in the fortnight between the murders, Scotland Yard had let the papers say he was wanted because "he might be able to help in the investigations"-but had forbidden them to print his picture. With the Yard's con-tempt-of-court club no longer over their heads, London dailies last week angrily attacked this police censorship. Their argument: they could have shown Heath's picture to Britain's millions in the two weeks while he was at large-as American papers would certainly have done-and it might well have prevented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Forbidden Picture | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

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