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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then Baritone Thomas ran off a raffle (Banker L. M. Giannini's wife won a radio) that helped put $49,000 into the orchestra's treasury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tombola Night | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

...Says wife Doris: "It amuses Pierre to see younger conductors eye him appraisingly, saying to themselves, 'When is that old bozo going to give up?' But, he says, 'I shall conduct till I'm 90. I shall die holding a baton.' " Says Pierre: "I didn't say 90. I said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tombola Night | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

...very center of the picture is Detective Jim McLeod (excellently played by Ralph Bellamy). Because he had a sadistic father, he has become relentlessly uncharitable as well as rigidly just toward all evildoers. His only real tenderness is for his wife (Meg Mundy); and suddenly, in the midst of hounding an abortionist, he discovers that his wife went to the man before she was married. The psychological tangle that results is too much for both McLeod and Playwright Kingsley; the solution, like the whole setup, is far more lurid than convincing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Apr. 4, 1949 | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

Born. To Charles Spencer ("Charlie") Chaplin, 59, longtime cinema comic, and fourth wife Oona O'Neill Chaplin, 23, daughter of Playwright Eugene O'Neill: their third child (his seventh, including the daughter of onetime protégée Joan Berry), second daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Josephine Anna. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 4, 1949 | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

...idol who takes a tumble in the story is Baines (Ralph Richardson), an embassy butler in London. Baines is detested by his tight-lipped wife, idolized by the ambassador's young son Felipe (Bobby Henrey), and loved by an embassy typist (Michele Morgan) whom he in turn loves. Out of this emotional tangle, Author Greene has built a clever, suspenseful tale. Borrowing Henry James's trick of using the eyes of children as peepholes into adult passions, Greene centered the story on little Felipe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Apr. 4, 1949 | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

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