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For half-witted John Straffen, who had never felt the slightest sense of guilt over any of his crimes, the capture meant simply the end of a lovely afternoon. For the villagers whose homes lie within escaping distance of Broadmoor Institution, it meant something else. Next morning the strangled body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A Lovely Afternoon | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

He helped Hecht to found the Chicago Literary Times, an irreverent journal that described Chicago as "the jazz baby-the reeking, cinder-ridden, joyous Baptist stronghold . . . the chewing-gum center of the world, the bleating, slant-headed rendezvous of half-witted newspapers, sociopaths and pants makers." He headed east to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Literary Life | 2/18/1952 | See Source »

All Set. How did the experiment turn out? After squirming through the two hours of the program, John Crosby, the sharp-witted Radio & TV critic of the New York Herald Tribune, decided the time had come to read NBC-and telecasters in general-a lecture of what's wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Trouble with News | 1/28/1952 | See Source »

At its best, no comic strip was more whimsically humorous than Crockett Johnson's Barnaby. The world of five-year-old Barnaby was peopled by such characters as McSnoyd, an invisible leprechaun who talked with a Bronx accent, Gorgon, a talking dog, Gus, a friendly ghost, and a rotund...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The End of a Fairy Tale | 1/28/1952 | See Source »

Ann Blyth plays the slutty princess of Samarkand with a dead pan and what sounds very much like a runny nose. David Farrar is an ideal match for her as he slogs stupidly through the role of Sir Guy of Devon, a Crusader even more preposterous than the Crusades themselves...

Author: By Andrew E. Norman, | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/5/1951 | See Source »

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