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Burdick wanted it understood that his criticisms had nothing to do with the way he had been treated at Oxford. "The anti-Americanism of Oxford is complex and subtle, [but] the sting [has been] taken out of it by the fact that it is fashionable to have an American friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Yank at Oxford | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

Then both tackles call signals for blocking assignments on the play. It sounds confusing, but to good T-men it isn't; on a play to the right side of the line, the players listen only to the right tackle, and let the left tackle chatter his deception signals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: T-Secrets | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

In his deep-chested, dim-witted fashion, Mature loves his wife. But Lizabeth loves nothing but penthouses, stylish parties and Wall Street wolves who, for a consideration, can boost her to success as an interior decorator. Her pushing ways cost Mature a chance for a secure job as football coach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 19, 1949 | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

Neither marriage nor motherhood could save her. In her husband (Van Heflin), a dull-witted country doctor, Emma discovers an ideal cuckold. Thereafter her course is clear: the well-beaten path from boredom to eroticism to ruin. When she learns at last that her lovers-a handsome philandering landowner (Louis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 15, 1949 | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

Dimitrov was acquitted (but still held by the Nazis); his half-witted fellow defendant, Marinus van der Lubbe, was beheaded. A year later, Dimitrov was finally released to Russia, in exchange for some German spies the Russians had caught.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Hero | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

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