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...well-rounded starlet's appearance on the screen brought cries of "Back it up!" Then the operator would oblige by rewinding it and showing the female again. When any heroine displayed signs of falling in love the audience implored: "Don't run off with that bum! Wait till I get home!" One night, men of Headquarters Battalion got so mad at Charles Boyer they threw coral rocks at the screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tales of the Pacific | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...When the court reconvened, Traicho Rostov, a colorless little man who looked like a small-town schoolmaster, still firmly stood his ground. For the first time in the weird history of Communist show trials, a major defendant had stepped out of the part assigned him and had yelled defiance till the end at the hidden author of the script.*Defendant Kostov provided some biting lines of his own. Questioned about Tito's police chief, Alexander Rankovic, he said: "I went to a banquet with him once where he proposed a toast. All he could say was 'Long live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BULGARIA: Impudence in Sofia | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...What should be the Christian attitude to these questions? . . . Are populations to increase everywhere till an explosion comes? . . . Think on these things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Crisis | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...down to live in a Manhattan slum on his $15-a-week salary. Norma quickly turned the hardship into $1,100 from the Reader's Digest for a sprightly piece on We Live in the Slums. She joined the Trib as a feature writer in 1944. But not till two years ago did she get her first chance on a breaking news story when the Trib sent her to Havana to cover the Satira yacht-murder of Playboy John Lester Mee (TIME, May 5,1947). She scooped a horde of male reporters by getting aboard the police-impounded yacht...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Woman in Scarlet | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...nightclubs, banquet halls and shopping centers. You can read a book in the library and use the safe deposit vault as a bank. If you get sick, there's a hospital, with a doctor and a nurse. You can park your car, eat your head off and sleep till noon. Home was never like that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: The Key Man | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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