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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...salesladies asked if I wouldn't like to see something new in dump trucks. "This one over here is a product of the Bing Crosby Research Foundation," she said as she pulled a heavy red truck out of the tinkering hands of a small boy, mumbling to him as she did so a perfunctory "Can I help you?" The truck operated by electricity and had a complete gear panel. On the front of the 18-inch-long vehicle was an elevator such as is used to life and carry heavy crates or cotton bales. The truck, which ran on house...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: THE WALRUS SAID | 12/21/1949 | See Source »

...Just the usual hoke," says an actor in "Holiday Inn" playing a Hollywood director. His comment, applied to the entire motion picture, in almost, but not quite, in order. The "hoke" in "Holiday Inn" is the old-fashioned, pollyannish product that Hollywood continues to turn out year after year. The only qualification that must be made is that "Holiday Inn" has a lot more to offer...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Move People. "Technique, composition and all that should be unconscious," Stuempfig explains. "This whole emphasis on technique is a product of the 19th and 20th Centuries; before that people painted the way they walked. The aim is to create something that moves people, that affects them in one way or another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Romantic Mood | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...performs the same function for the Republicans' Governor Tom Dewey). Air Force Secretary Stuart Symington is supplied with speeches by young, cocky Steve Leo, onetime Maine newsman; Secretary of Agriculture Charles Brannan by ex-TIME Reporter Wesley McCune. General Omar Bradley's famed, soldierly prose is the product of Lieut. Colonel Chet Hansen, an ex-newspaperman who planned to leave but has been persuaded to stay on-to finish Bradley's memoirs. Of the host of other U.S. postwar memoirs, few have come into print without a touch of ectoplasmic eloquence. Two recent exceptions to the rule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITAL: The Trouble with Ghosts | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...Devil in the Flesh" is polished, artistic product. It proves what so many American producers fail to understand: imagination and not dollars makes great pictures...

Author: By Roy M. Goodman, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 11/29/1949 | See Source »

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