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...Danny, I just wanna know this, is this a good picture? Why don't ya ever wanna talk about the picture, Danny? They say the picture's good. It says there the picture's great...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 5/6/1950 | See Source »

...right, kid, you asked for it, and here it is. The ads are lying. I'm a liar. The picture stinks. You wanna know why the picture stinks? Because they took a story about a jockey by Ernie Hemingway. It was called "My Old Man," and they decided to make a picture out of it. Sure, sure, they got some good actors for it. They get Micheline Prelle, of the Rive Gauche. And Johnnie Garfield. He's a good actor, Danny. He's a great actor. And Orley Lindgren. They say he's good...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 5/6/1950 | See Source »

...weeks passed, Laradon Hall began to win a few small victories. It cured nine-year-old Billy of pyromania by letting him burn the rubbish each day, until gradually ("Aw, I don't wanna") he lost his interest in lighting fires. Another boy had a mania for stealing keys. So Mrs. Calabrese bought a whole batch of keys for Harold and gave him one whenever he deserved a reward. Now Harold has a pile of keys and has stopped stealing them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: For In-Betweens | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...students invaded the weekly "coffee & doughnuts" meeting of the Boosters' Club, got the Boosters to sign for 1,500 tickets there & then. They plastered the town with signs ("Wanna see a college that's really on the beam? Fill the stands on Saturday and watch us back our team!"). Twice a day, they snarled traffic with their jalopies, peddled tickets to pedestrians and motorists. Each afternoon they had a six-piece band jiving in front of the Book Nook store. Covering every angle, they even patched the hole in the stadium fence so that grade-school kids could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Will to Win | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

Sittin' on the stones of Rome Make me wanna say I'm home People everywhere Stop and sit and stare Make my trumpet want to blare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Welcome | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

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