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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Educational Noodles. In cases where companies lease their properties and still continue to operate as taxpaying private ventures, the Government has not interfered so far. But it has already ordered the Mueller Co. to pay up its income taxes. There is nothing in making noodles, the Government contends, that is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REAL ESTATE: Moola for Boola | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

Battleground (MGM) is a story about the Battle of the Bulge. Filmed with a sentimental, Mauldin-type humor and some standard war movie heroics, it concentrates on one squad of the 101st Airborne Division, which was enveloped near Bastogne by the surprise Nazi breakthrough of December 1944. The eight-day...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 14, 1949 | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

Though Scripter Robert Pirosh fought in the foxholes near Bastogne, his story is littered with humor, characters and incidents made familiar by every war story since What Price Glory. His soldiers, never silent, are always armed with dialogue that should keep movie audiences giggling and, in the acceptable Sergeant Flagg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 14, 1949 | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

MGM's leading bid for Academy Award honors-and the first job at the studio to be signed by Producer Dore Schary-stacks up well against such recent combat films as Task Force and Command Decision; nonetheless such a wartime documentary as San Pietro makes it seem like a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 14, 1949 | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

Whatever the ancient Greeks may have thought, life among the gods up there on Olympus wasn't always a bowl of nectar. Take the case of Venus, or let Author Erskine take it. Her mother-in-law Juno was a suspicious, embittered shrew. Sister-in-law Minerva, an athletic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Things Homer Never Knew | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

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