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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Whimsical" is a better word. "The Bishop's Wife" is minor whimsy. It shows how Dudley enables the bishop to get enough money to build a cathedral. It then shows how Dudley persuades both the bishop and an unpleasant donor that the money could be more wisely used if it were spent to help the poor and the suffering. It then shows how Dudley saves the bishop's marriage from a sorry fate. And all the time, it maintains a nice comical relationship between Dudley, the bishop, and the bishop's wife...

Author: By J. C. R., | Title: The Moviegoer | 1/7/1948 | See Source »

...came, the gallery, which had been empty for months, was jammed. Tojo walked to the stand with the correct aplomb of the model prisoner and the unearthly smugness of the samurai. His court-appointed lawyer, George Blewett of Philadelphia, started to read Tojo's 64,000-word affidavit, which Tojo had rewritten four times in one year. Tojo himself sat back calmly. Around his right middle finger was tied a piece of string-a reminder to himself, he explained later, to keep his quick temper in check. Among his fellow defendants there was a stir of anticipation. Teiichi Suzuki...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: The Greatest Trial | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

...trial (TIME, Sept. 24, 1945) did not now try to save his neck. His sovereign, Emperor Hirohito, was not to blame for anything, said Tojo. At the meeting during which the General Staff presented its first war plans, "His Majesty was pleased to listen . . . although not uttering a single word. . . . The responsibility of defeat devolves on myself as Premier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: The Greatest Trial | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

This year BBC's television unit will begin what Program Director Cecil McGivern calls "the real guts of television" -a series of documentary studies of coal production, infantile paralysis, housing, other problems. McGivern believes that television is "far more effective than the written word, the spoken word, or the movies. ... It will be the biggest social force ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Home & Abroad: At Home & Abroad | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

...Stafford couldn't or didn't, but the Times had a word to offer. "Peace of mind," it said, "is virtually unattainable unless a man has what the psychologists call Hosenselbständigkeitsgefühl, or trouser confidence. The four freedoms are a hollow mockery if our braces are going to be bursting all the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Hosenselbst | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

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