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...promotion pamphlets, inviting Americans (for $7.50 a year) to "Laugh with the British- at themselves." Editor Edmund Valpy Knox hoped to appeal especially to ex-G.I.s who got acquainted with Britain in World War II. But even for total strangers, he believes that Punch will still pack a wallop. Said Editor Knox: "If you get down to the basic principles of humor, I think you will find that what makes people laugh is the same on both sides of the Atlantic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Good Clean Punch | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

...exhibition was in Manhattan but the artist was in Hollywood, and wishing he were somewhere else. In the voluntary torments of Hollywood, Odets had found escape in painting-but his words about it packed more professional wallop than his pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Hoping for Accidents | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

...worked at his painting about seven months. "I interpreted the idea I had in me," he said, "and I did it with lines and colors. I can't do it with words." Yet Deutsch's title, What Atomic War Will Do to You, packed a timely wallop. Some thought it must have been the title that had the winning punch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Pop! | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

...success as he had with his first novel. It is not a theme that even the brashest of moviemakers will rush to handle, and readers who found Don Birnam a sympathetic figure are not likely to have any such fellow feeling for John Grandin. Many readers who got a wallop out of Weekend will have to judge Valor on its literary merit alone, and they will find it medium-to-poor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Case History, No. 2 | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

...everything was not quite as simple as that. Revaluation had already dealt what might be a knockout wallop to Canada's gold-mining industry, just getting back on its feet from the war slowdown. And it might hit the tourist trade, which annually pours some $150,000,000 into Canada. U.S. tourists will no longer get $1.10 for their U.S. dollars. But if fewer tourists come because of the lost premium, Canada will lose some badly needed dollar exchange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE DOMINION .: Bar the Door | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

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