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...vice czar, 2) roughs up a witness in a murder case involving the mink-clad body of the standard beautiful blonde, 3) wins a reprieve for his foundering, 47-year-old newspaper, the Day,* 4) wins back his divorced wife (Kim Hunter), 5) calls his publisher's old widow (Ethel Barrymore) "Baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 31, 1952 | 3/31/1952 | See Source »

...Matisse or Picasso, has had a greater influence on modern art. This week Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art is honoring Kandinsky's memory with a big, retrospective show of his works, drawn partly from Manhattan's Museum of Non-Objective Painting and partly from his widow's Paris collection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Music on Canvas | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

...Alexander Boole, 93, retired world president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, defeated candidate for Congress on the 1920 Prohibition "Send a Mother to the Senate" ticket; of a stroke; in Brooklyn. With the battle cry, "Tremble, King Alcohol! We Shall Grow Up!", Ohio-born Ella Boole, widow of a Methodist minister, helped pressure Congress into passing the 18th (Prohibition) Amendment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 24, 1952 | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

...most exciting event in Will's life occurred when somebody left a baby on the doorstep; Will took the child in and adopted it. When his boss at the hotel died, Will married the widow, not because he loyed her but because they were both lonely and she was somebody to help take care of the boy. Success came along, somehow. Will got into the egg business, made money and built a fancy big house. Out of boredom more than anything else, he took to visiting Omaha on weekends, and struck up with a hotel floozie. When his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: That Lonesome Road | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

...Right Seat. Impressed by Richter's Ph.D. and by his vigorous denial of Nazi sympathies, Hanover school authorities gave him a job as a mathematics teacher. Sure enough, he took good care of Frau Roessler-in fact, he even married his old captain's widow, and adopted her four children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: School for Democracy | 3/3/1952 | See Source »

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