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Miscue. In Omaha, Detective Inspector F. Franks secured a confession from a woman who had passed a worthless check that she had signed F. Franks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 2, 1948 | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

...that middle road the CRIMSON is in danger of injury from both sides. In urging forward its reforms, the paper must still keep a certain amount of lightness lest it lose its surface attractiveness and its readers. Too much, sensationalism would make the paper worthless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seventy-Five | 1/30/1948 | See Source »

...stage version managed to bury not only the deeper half but the whole of Dostoevsky's novel-giving it, as the only compensation, a highly picturesque funeral. Actor Gielgud's Raskolnikov can be enjoyed as a brilliantly mannered performance, but as a portrait it is worthless. Ackland's stage piece itself is like a translation that inserts innumerable adjectives while omitting all the verbs; it substitutes atmosphere for action, and theatrical color for dramatic force. The stage set-a cross-section of Raskolnikov's swarming rooming house-is a fine device for squeezing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Play in Manhattan, Jan. 5, 1948 | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

...given poker chips to trade with. When he paid out a red chip, he got a bit of orange. A blue chip bought a peanut; a white chip a slice of banana. Green chips were worth a slice of bread (which Trader did not like); yellow chips were worthless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Monkeys with Money | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

Circle No. 3. John Amery deserved a circle of perdition to himself. He was the worthless son of a distinguished father, Leopold Amery, Secretary of State for India in the Churchill government. He had been convicted 74 times on traffic charges. He had caused a scandal by falling in love with the prostitute who nightly occupied the most conspicuous spot in Piccadilly. He was a bankrupt. He had been an aide to Francisco Franco. During the war he joined the Germans and organized the British Free Corps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Circles of Perdition | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

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