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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Strings. Last month, Britain's Catholic hierarchy came forward with its counterproposal. Under its provisions, all Catholic schools could be leased to the local education authority "at a rent which would allow for mortgage interest or redemption." The government would then support Catholic schools out of taxes, in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Catholic Proposal | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

The central character, a backwoods idealist who becomes a one-man state government, is hard-centered, soft-surfaced Willie Stark (Broderick Crawford). His life story is told in choppy, dramatic incidents, which give the movie a curious pattern-Stark at the football stadium, Stark haranguing a fairgrounds crowd, Stark bulldozing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 5, 1949 | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Scripter-Director-Producer Robert Rossen's efforts to keep Stark from being a facsimile of the late Huey Long often turn the character into a colorless man who lacks the political charm of a people's favorite and looks like a cross between a schoolteacher and a gangster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 5, 1949 | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

As "No Exit" is virtually a three character play (there is a valet who appears briefly), an unusual burden is put upon the actors. The Idler players--Ed Franklin, Connaught O'Connel, and Carla Friedman--are a talented trio and what errors they committed last night can be laid at...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 12/3/1949 | See Source »

This provides a new emphasis which greatly improves the character of the drive. Appeals such as the Salzburg Seminar and World Student Service Fund rely exclusively on student contributions. The College's donations are needed much more by them than by the larger charities, which do not have to rely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Charities and Council | 12/2/1949 | See Source »

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