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Even those men who can satisfy the McCarran Act's super-sensitive requirements for political purity might as well not try, for the convention or conference they wish to attend is usually long since over by the time they have waded through this long-winded procedure. Only those whose purpose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Uranium Curtain | 5/13/1953 | See Source »

* Another of his distinctions: to have made the longest-winded speech in U.N. history, which took up two consecutive Security Council meetings. Subject: India's misdeeds.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAKISTAN: The Mad Mullahs | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

The long-run melodrama When Did You Stop Beating Anti-Communists? (Senator Joseph McCarthy, producer, director and star) introduced a new performer last week. He was Reed Harris, 43, deputy administrator of the International Information Administration, which includes the Voice of America. Witness Harris showed a bureaucrat's tendency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Man Who Wrote a Book | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

Rosemary got most of the solos because her voice was in the busiest range-Betty's was three notes lower. In 1946 she made her first solo recording, a long-winded little item called I'm Sorry I Didn t Say I'm Sorry When I Made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Girl in the Groove | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

Decked out in beard and spectacles, Clifton Webb plays Sousa as a wry, rather pixyish personality. But the role gives ex-Dancer Webb an opportunity to do the two-step, which was introduced in 1890 to the strains of Sousa's Washington Post march. Stars and Stripes Forever hits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 29, 1952 | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

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