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The trouble is that Boston (or any other place) just couldn't be as nit-witted as MGM's version of it. All of the sure fire of conflict that forces the Apley of the novel to reexamine his life every time he brushes against the non-Boston world--is...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Late George Apley | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

In Trud, the trade-union paper, he found a young shoe-factory foreman named Vassily Matrosov being praised to the Red skies for the "amazing" changes by which he had boosted output. To hear Trud tell it, Comrade Matrosov was a combination Bedaux, Stakhanov and Henry Ford. Last week, in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Needle-Wit | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

Ellen Cicely Wilkinson's life had been almost all work and fierce fighting. A child of Manchester's slums, she put herself through Manchester University, championed woman suffrage and union organization. She was elected as a Communist to Manchester's City Council, then switched to the Labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Death of a Champion | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

Out of school, Senators had fun. At a Maine dinner, acidulous Bob Taft challenged the Democrats to a beauty contest. Florida's nimble-witted Claude Pepper, no Adonis either, cracked: "In a beauty contest I am paired with the Senator from Ohio."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Congress' Week, Feb. 3, 1947 | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

¶Gave a state dinner for the Supreme Court justices; joined them in applauding the after-dinner offerings of nimble-witted Pianist Oscar Levant.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Yond Cassius . . . | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

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