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Filmed in sharp contrasts of shadow and brightness, Black Hand evokes its period and locale with shabby, tin-ceilinged tenement flats and narrow streets swarming with immigrant life. With considerable effect, it conveys the ruthlessness of the Black Hand gang, the fear of the victims and the helplessness of police in whom no one dares to confide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 20, 1950 | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

...partner Lawrence W. Parsons '53, points out, there are more nuances to collecting and running model railroads than most people dream of. When you mention model trains students generally think of Lionel toys they had when they were younger. Among connoisseurs these trains are contemptuously spoken of as "tin-plates" and they will have nothing to do with them. Hobbyists deal only with exact reproduction of commercial and antiquated trains, all of which they build themselves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Railroad Fanatics Build Models, Start New Club | 3/16/1950 | See Source »

...Morning of Dec. 4. A powdery snow began to fall outside. Under an old-fashioned tin ceiling, in the steam-heated courtroom, the twelve men and alternate sat down to consider the case. The trial had drawn the attention of half the world. On hand were photographers, newsmen, feature writers (among them, Novelists Fannie Hurst and John O'Hara), reporters from London and Paris newspapers. Dr. Sander, lean-faced, pale and expressionless, his busy and respected career interrupted, sat inside the courtroom rail with his wife, the mother of his three children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: Similar to . . . Murder | 3/6/1950 | See Source »

...four days and nights, Rio de Janeiro rocked to the torrid music of samba bands, the tin-shop crash of colliding motor cars, the laughter and shrieks of costumed revelers. Cariocas agreed that it was the greatest carnival they had ever celebrated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Spree | 3/6/1950 | See Source »

...hounds), examining each dog with quick hand and practiced eye. When he got to the handsome imported German shepherd (working-dog winner), the handler slipped off the lead and the dog stood unattended, facing the judge with a pride and pose that would have looked good on Rin Tin Tin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Top Dog | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

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