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A. Howard Fuller, 34, plump president of the joke-haunted Fuller Brush Co., was also coming right along. To impersonate him in a Red Skelton comedy, The Fuller Brush Man, Columbia Pictures asked for-and got-A. Howard Fuller.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Furrowed Brow | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

"The desert is mirage-haunted and the track through it is marked by carcasses and bleached bones of camels slaughtered by Kazak wanderers for the water in their stomachs. Tough Moslem soldiers with us shot down desert antelope and huang yang, or yellow sheep. One marksman quickly slashed his quarry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 20, 1947 | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

Economic Crisis. For crisis had become general. There was scarcely a level of human activity, scarcely a corner of the world unaffected by it. There was the crisis in food. Crops had been bad almost everywhere except Russia. The specter of hunger in winter haunted Western Europe and much of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Creeping Suspense | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

Like most Civil War novels, it rustles with crinolines and chivalry, tells its story through the decline of an aristocratic family. But Author Williams' Currains are haunted by a unique skeleton in the plantation closet: it seems that Papa Currain, long since dead, "like a young torn turkey on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crinolines & Corruption | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

The picture also tells the story of Franklin Roosevelt's life and particularly of his presidency. But the film is of interest chiefly because it assembles in one place so many images of the face, so many recordings of the voice and the way of speaking-a full document...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Aug. 25, 1947 | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

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