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In the House of Commons, Winston Churchill gave the state's endorsement to the church's plea. "Free speech carries with it the evil of all foolish, unpleasant and venomous things that are said," declared the Prime Minister, "but on the whole we would rather lump them than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Enduring the Public Nuisance | 7/28/1952 | See Source »

"Miss Traubel's wonderful voice." one critic wrote, "has helped to heal the wounds of seven unpleasant years." In Tokyo, Crown Prince Akihito attended, asked for the Brahms Lullaby and got it. In Osaka, a Japanese opera singer rushed up to thank her. announced with invincible Japanese courtesy: "Now...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Japan Catches It | 6/23/1952 | See Source »

The first episode, Actor's Blood, is a rather anemic whodunit about the murder of an unpleasant stage actress (Marsha Hunt) whose ham-actor father (Edward G. Robinson) stages a dinner party to which he invites all the suspects. Except for the solution, there are few surprises in this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 23, 1952 | 6/23/1952 | See Source »

About Face (Warner) adds lustrous Technicolor and several lackluster songs & dances to the old stage (1936) and screen (1938) farce, Brother Rat. There are some strictly unmilitary goings-on at Southern Military Institute. Against Institute regulations, Cadet Eddie Bracken is secretly married to Phyllis Kirk, who is about to become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 2, 1952 | 6/2/1952 | See Source »

One of his more pleasant assignments consisted of spending several days in Nassau with John P. Marquand for a cover story (TIME, March 7, 1949). Marquand later told fellow Book-of-the-Month Club judges: "I never got such an awful going over" as he received at the hands of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, may 12, 1952 | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

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