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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...public apathy toward many of its tried & true stars, Hollywood has given more than passing thought to art and even culture during the past few years. Actually, some gains have been made in the direction of adult screen fare (Boomerang!, Treasure, of Sierra Madre, The Big Clock, The Snake Pit, Sitting Pretty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Big Dig | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

...small alcoved room in Doneraile Court, a Miss St. Leger became the only lady Free Mason. The popular story is that she hid in a clock, her family says she happened to fall asleep on a couch; anyhow, whether by design or accident, she overheard what the Free Masons were saying, so they made her one of their number. In her portrait the lady . . . has a dogged, impassible face [see cut]. I support the idea of the clock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Shriners & Secrets | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

Said Mrs. Olechny later: "At three o'clock one morning Russian soldiers knocked at the door, and told me we had one hour to pack our things and leave. They took us to Pinsk and loaded us into boxcars-60 to a car." As the slow train moved through the Russian winter, five babies froze to death. Their mothers pushed them out into the snow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Reunion in Naples | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

...clock one morning last week, a formal procession of Peruvians turned into the broad, tree-lined Alameda of Chile's capital city, Santiago. It was Peru's Independence Day, and the procession, headed by well-groomed Ambassador Carlos Miró Quesada, drew up before the equestrian statues of Bernardo O'Higgins and José de San Martin, laid wreaths at the statues of Peru's (and Chile's) heroes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: War of the Roses | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

Then the Copa called, and two month ago RCA Victor admitted Mindy to it select list of popular singers. Her firs sides, One More Time and Twelve O'Clock and All Is Well, got good reviews. Tw Hollywood studios have started preliminary screen tests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: How to Melt Steel | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

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