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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...right blend of cynicism and playfulness, though his eyes do twinkle a bit too much on occasion, Anna Neagle is pleasantly attractive and eager in the female lead, and she also demonstrates that infuriating twinkle. Joshua, portrayed by Tom Walls is a marvelous English-gentleman type, both in word and deed...

Author: By David L. Ratner, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 11/12/1949 | See Source »

...veteran for the second time, Mr. Augarten does not find it hard to settle down in Eliot House. While finishing off his last term in International government he is writing a 25,000 word diary of his year abroad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senior, Ex-Pilot Tells of Israel War | 11/10/1949 | See Source »

...good word with Premier Stalin himself (TIME, April 28, 1947). The Trib's new correspondent was Joseph Newman, veteran of the Japan and Argentina beats, who was already in Russia as a special correspondent for the Moscow Conference of Foreign Ministers and just stayed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Exclusion Act | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...years it would have swelled to $80,000 and be yielding $400 a month in income. It was such an easy way to get rich that messenger boys stopped to read the stock-tickers in offices, chauffeurs drove with ears cocked to catch some word of a merger, and elevator operators were never long out of touch with their brokers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: End of a World | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...Richard Whitney,* to the Stock Exchange's No. 2 Post, where U.S. Steel is traded. Cried Whitney: "I bid $205 for 25,000 shares of Steel." He moved on to other posts, cried other bids for huge blocks at the price of the last sale. Around the floor word spread that the House of Morgan and the New York banks had put a cushion under the market. The market rallied. It looked as if the Morgan "miracle" had staved off disaster. "Business," announced Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W.Mellon, "is fundamentally sound." The Cleveland Trust Co.'s Leonard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: End of a World | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

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