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The Labor government had not yet dared to tell Britons what they faced. Sir Stafford Cripps, by proposing a wage freeze (TIME, Feb 16), had led Labor up to one big hurdle. But could the keen-minded jockey make the massive, stubborn trades union movement take even this first unpleasant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Too Bloody Awful | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

Mob scenes, unpleasant characters, and woeful, middle-aged men are plentiful in American cinema. There is some excellent photography on our screen; there is a little good writing which penetrates the West Coast hierarchy of editorial stupidity. Where "Panic" is exciting is in the mixture of completely repulsive characters with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/14/1948 | See Source »

Occasionally criticism becomes an unpleasant task. Such is the case when speaking of Harvard's Music Department. Although it is not so rich as some other departments, although it is not so rich as some other departments, although it is not so big, not so staffed with "names," the Music...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Closed Shop | 2/12/1948 | See Source »

This is one of MGM's English Specials, and the studio's British stable (Dame May Whitty, Reginald Owen, Rhys Williams), accomplished actors all, help it out a good deal. Walter Pidgeon is not very happily cast as Sabre, but he succeeds in making a solid character of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 9, 1948 | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

This was as close as Cripps dared come to telling British workers (who last fortnight, through the Trades Union Congress, said that they would not accept wage ceilings) that they must not expect wage increases. "The Chancellor," said the Tory Daily Mail almost with relish, "is pretty good at these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Better | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

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