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Both men were carefully checked before the Army assigned them to the Los Alamos atom-bomb plant in 1944. Heavy-set Alexander von der Luft, 23, had been born in Wilmington. His father was an official of the American Cyanamid and Chemical Corp. at Bridgeville, Pa. Von der Luft had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Atomic Souvenirs | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

"For my taste," burbles Chilean Author María-Luísa Bombal, "the grim, documentary type of writing is overdone today. I prefer-what you call-escape." Because escapist literature is Hollywood's meat, her new novel, House of Mist (Farrar Straus, $2.75), was a natural mouthful (at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: Escapist | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

But scarcely had Metro's massive procurement machinery begun to move than it stalled. L.B. was ready & willing; Miss Kerr was more than ready & willing. But Pascal had so thoroughly snarled up his half of the contract that it seemed impossible to untangle. The chief difficulty was that Pascal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Star Is Born | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

GEORGE S. WALLIS JR.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 3, 1947 | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

The Perfect Marriage (Hal Wallis; Paramount) takes a minor domestic spat and blows it up into a very flossy parlor-&-bedroom comedy. On their tenth wedding anniversary, David Niven and Loretta Young admit out loud that the thrill is gone. They are irritated-have been, let's face it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 27, 1947 | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

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