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...Paleface. Bob Hope and Jane Russell wring some horse laughs out of a parody on horse operas (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Jan. 10, 1949 | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

...These postwar years have certainly been a field day for Cassandras," Conant continued. "Those who temperamentalyy like to wring their bands have been daily provided with ample opportunity to exercise their pessimistic zeal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Calls for Reign of Reason | 9/29/1948 | See Source »

...required, i.e., balance its budget, tighten credit, soak up idle money by higher taxes. If the government can do this, a new and sounder peso-at perhaps six or seven to the dollar-may be established. If so, Mexico may be one of the first Latin American nations to wring the water out of its economy and get down to sound living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Peso Off the Peg | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

...battered streets, music lovers stopped to wring the hand of 71-year-old Conductor Bruno Walter. He had come back to preside over a ceremony as symbolic as his own return: the restoration to the Vienna State Opera of a Rodin bust of another Viennese hero-Gustav Mahler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Homecoming | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

Perhaps the Odets drama has lost just a little of its fiery workers-of-the-world-unite spirit--at any rate the current Pasadena address of its anther hangs in the background to dispel any idealist fervor. But the Dramatic Club cast manages to wring from the script more of the tragic social significance than could be expected perhaps even of a professional group...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 3/14/1947 | See Source »

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