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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peering through grillwork gates, over garden walls and from doors, windows and moving dollies, three television cameras probed last week into the anguished doings at the great house at Thornfield in Studio One's dramatization of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. Not all of Studio One'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: High Polish | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Pressed into troopship service in World War I, she used her speed (23 knots) to zigzag alone through submarine-infested waters. She also performed yeoman service in World War II, carrying 384,586 servicemen to & from battle. Never once was the Aquitania, known as "Grannie," fired on. Between wars she...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sailor's Rest | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

The movie opens with a long shot of the earth whirling in space, and the voice of Creator DeMille himself intoning a speech that begins: "Before the dawn of history, ever since the first man discovered his soul . . ." To meet the challenge of building from there, DeMille brings on a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 26, 1949 | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Bride for Sale (RKO Radio) is a tired old triangle farce in which three veterans crank out the creaking whimsy. As a high-powered tax consultant, Claudette Colbert spends her days poring through income-tax forms looking for a home-loving rich husband. To keep her in his employ, George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 26, 1949 | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Financial Statement. In Abilene, Texas, after four burglaries at his St. Paul Methodist Church, Pastor Earl Hamlett announced through the columns of the Reporter News: "We do not keep our collection money in the church safe . . . Pickings [there] are either very slim or nonexistent and never worth the trouble, regardless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 26, 1949 | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

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