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More Fish them Boston. By now it is probably the third biggest city in the U.S. -more than 2,000,000 people live within its far-flung city limits, more than 4,000,000 in its metropolitan area-and it has gotten pinker, more sprawling, more like a Los Angeles promoter's dream with every advancing mile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: The Pink Oasis | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

...educators had made it clear that they were thoroughly fed up: the hunt for subversive influences on the campus had gotten out of hand (TIME, June 27). Last week, two more college presidents cried halt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Counterattack (Cont'd) | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

Many a businessman, looking for Government contracts, has gotten lost in the bureaucratic jungle of Washington. But as every businessman should know, there are guides, known as five-percenters, to lead bewildered contract-seekers out of the swamp in a hurry. The guides, usually former Government officials or ex-Congressmen, know or claim to know the right people. For a retainer and 5% on the gross of any contract obtained, "influence" will be put to work. Few officials will admit that such influence exists, although it is part & parcel of the Governments patronage system. Only last month Defense Secretary Louis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: The Five-Percenters | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

Lara met María in 1945, when he attended a studio party for the then unknown young actress who had just gotten rave notices for her first big picture. María Félix invited Lara to a party next night at her apartment. She apologized for not having a piano, and asked him to bring a guitarist along. Instead, Lara sent a baby grand with the note: "To the incomparable María Félix from her admirer, Agustin Lara." They were married soon after. Every Mexican knows how Lara's famous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Incident at the Capri | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

...around London are tending to be come more & more a back lot for Hollywood." Almost all the major made-in-England films now coming up, Critic Lejeune noted, have a hands-across-the-sea flavor. Among their players (some in British-sponsored movies): Fredric March Orson Welles, Joseph Gotten, Valli, Ingrid Bergman, Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich Jennifer Jones, Robert Montgomery Douglas Fairbanks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Darned Near Dead | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

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