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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kind. Britain's 34,000-ton Caronia, biggest passenger liner built since the war, completed her last trial run before her maiden trip to New York next week. Honor guest was the Duke of Edinburgh, who cracked: "I'm sorry my wife can't be with me; as you know, we've had another launching in the meantime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Facts & Figures, Jan. 3, 1949 | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

...Arthur Rank's The Red Shoes. Two lists included Walter Wanger's Joan oj Arc, Robert Flaherty's documentary Louisiana Story, 20th Century-Fox's little comedy, Sitting Pretty, RKO's I Remember Mama and Samuel Goldwyn's The Bishop's Wife. Films that placed on one list: Call Northside 777, Apartment for Peggy, The Naked City, State of the Union, A Foreign Affair, The Pearl, Italy's Paisan and Denmark's Day of Wrath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Best of 1948 | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

Live Today for Tomorrow (Universal-International). On the bench, Judge Fredric March is a pitiless interpreter of the letter of the law. All of a sudden the judge gets more of his own kind of medicine than he can swallow. His wife (Florence Eldridge), he learns, has an obscure, incurable and agonizing disease. Of course neither he nor his old friend the doctor dreams of telling the poor woman what she's in for, but ultimately, in pity and anguish, the judge determines to kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 3, 1949 | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

...question of whether or not the wife should be told just what she faces, there is no evidence that anyone in front of the camera or behind it has heard of stoical, let alone Christian reasons, for telling and facing that kind of truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 3, 1949 | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

Died. Hedwig Pinkus Ehrlich, 84, tiny, unassuming wife of the late great German bacteriologist Dr. Paul Ehrlich, whose discovery of salvarsan or 606 ("The Magic Bullet") was a major landmark in combating syphilis; of a stroke; in Manhattan. Frau Ehrlich fled Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 3, 1949 | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

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