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The local mill-owning Klan bigwig (Hugh Sanders) is pictured as a cynical racketeer fattening on the dues and fees of an ignorant rank & file. In the movie's best performance, Actor Cochran, bullying and toadying by turn, creates a picture of an ugly, slack-witted Klansman. Storm Warning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 5, 1951 | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

Dallas packs plenty of guns and keeps them smoking; it spurs its horses vigorously over a well-traveled, well-Technicolored course. The picture rises a bit above the level of the standard western by dint of some dabs of humor and Actor Cochran's performance as a dull-witted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 22, 1951 | 1/22/1951 | See Source »

"Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane," it said. "Banking and Finance . . . . Job opportunities available." Nothing wrong with that business, thought Vag. He could keep his striped ties. He turned a few pages "International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation. . . . A world-wide Electronics and Communication Enterprise." Good firm, that. Vag plugged into his...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 1/10/1951 | See Source »

The Balance Wheel refers to a heavy-witted Pennsylvania Dutchman who is no more the hero of a novel than the dumpling in a dish of Sauerbraten. He just happens to sit in the middle of the concoction. His three brothers-a steel-fisted money-grabber, a radical of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fast Typing | 1/8/1951 | See Source »

The Rev. W. Russell Bowie '04, now a dean at the Union Theological Seminary, remarked, "He was handsome and light-hearted and apparently easy-going, not of particularly high rank in college class, quick witted and capable as a CRIMSON editor, but not extraordinary.

Author: By Frank B. Qilbert, | Title: FDR Headed Crimson During College Years; Work on Paper Was Most Important Activity | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

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