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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the Government asking the questions, husky, big-jawed Manning R. Johnson made an effective prosecution witness in the perjury trial of Labor Leader Harry Bridges. But when the defense began to prod him last week, Ex-Communist Johnson made an even better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: You'd Be Thin, Too | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Second prize of $10,000 went to Miss Laura Rott of Naperville, Ill. for her mint surprise cookies; third prize of $4,000 to Mrs. R. W. Sprague of San Marino, Calif, for her Carrie's Creole chocolate cake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUBLICITY: $50,000 Twist | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Washington, D. C.: December 31, William T. Lesh '31, Securities and Exchange Commission; Western Michigan (Grand Rapids): Lee M. Hutchins '46, 38 Oak Street; Charleston, West Virginia: Frank R. Lyon, Jr., 1601 Kanawha Valley Building, and Worcester: Chester W. Cook '19, 75 Park Avenue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Clubs Will Entertain During Recess | 12/20/1949 | See Source »

...Jean R. Debrix, critic and producer of experimental French movies, speaks tonight on "New Trends in Films" under the auspices of Ivy films at 7:30 p.m. at New Lecture Hall. Debrix' lecture will be in English. The talks will be accompanied by excerpts from recent movies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Movie Critic Speaks | 12/20/1949 | See Source »

...Academy had a new president. At 71, red-faced Sir Alfred Munnings, a rip-snorting conservative and painter of fine horseflesh, had resigned. Into his strait-laced boots last week stepped a 70-year-old Irish portraitist named Sir Gerald Kelly. As befitted a president of the huffy, stuffy R. A., Sir Gerald was on the conservative side too, but he expressed his views more gently than Sir Alfred had. To Sir Alfred, modern art was "damned nonsense" (TIME, May 9). Sir Gerald's judgment: "Some good, some bad and some indifferent, and some . . . danged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Changing the Guard | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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