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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sixty-five Documents. Last month Chambers was called for deposition hearings by Hiss's attorney, William Marbury of Baltimore. He was subjected to questioning in connection with the slander suit which made him believe "that Hiss was determined to destroy me-and my wife, if possible." He went to his farm at Westminster, Md., waited for two days for his anger to cool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Dusty Bomb | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...Housemaster's' stationery in a gutter. It was note admonishing an undergraduate for parking a car in a reserved space. "I have been put to a good deal of trouble," the note began, "and some expense, arrange for this reserved parking space. It is for the convenience of my wife, my guests, and myself...

Author: By Joel Raphaelson, | Title: Off The Cuff -:- | 12/8/1948 | See Source »

...Beside the space keeps the Master's wife from getting damp in bad weather And I'm sure all Harvard men will join me in cheering this news...

Author: By Joel Raphaelson, | Title: Off The Cuff -:- | 12/8/1948 | See Source »

...colonel develops a nasty habit of passing the death sentence on everybody who frustrates or annoys him. Sooner or later, most of his ex-Army pals get on his nerves. Eventually he gets so careless about who is hanged that his wife (Ellen Drew) and his best friend (William Hoiden) run out on him. A lot of the town-folk still regard him as a hero, but at this point the movie becomes an unusual western by seeming to ask: "Is there a psychiatrist in the house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 6, 1948 | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

Sturges takes far too much film footage setting the stage for his gag. Rex Harrison is an aging, temperamental and gabby symphony conductor. He is madly in love with his beautiful young wife (Linda Darnell), but he begins to suspect her, unjustly, of carrying on with his handsome young secretary (Kurt Kreuger). Brooding over his jealousy as he conducts a concert (Rossini, Wagner, Tchaikovsky), he imagines himself solving his domestic triangle in three different ways: 1) by murder, 2) by generosity to the young "lovers," and 3) by suicide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 6, 1948 | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

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