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More to Come. Then there was 37-year-old Communist Renato Guttuso. His painting of a peasant wood chopper being shot in the back gave a broad hint of why Guttuso's Italian fellow Communists now object to his work. The poster-bright colors and the shapes which looked as if they had been hacked out by a hoe were reminiscent of Comrade Picasso's art, but like Picasso's they deviated from the "realism" the party presently admires. At the opposite extreme was 52-year-old Antonio Donghi's meticulous The Hunter, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Lively Proof | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

Tall, shapely Brenda Allen had just about everything a girl needed to become a successful prostitute. A teetotaler with a hint of Southern drawl, she had a mind like a cash register, and she hadn't been in love since she was 21 (about 15 years ago by latest reckoning). For all of that, Brenda had a little trouble getting along. Every year or so she found herself in a brush with the law for practicing her profession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Brenda's Revenge | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

Just what did the exhibitors think the public really wanted? No one said. Nor did any of the exhibitors hint at what Hollywood suspected was their big $10 million motive: to get up a new supply of films against which the major studios will have to compete when they have to rent out each movie individually under federal decrees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: $10 Million Newcomer | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

...cigarette smoking after a serious coronary attack at the age of 49-if he wishes-in his book Thank God for My Heart Attack . . . However, great harm may come from TIME's blithe presentation [May 23] of Harrison's stand to millions of readers, without inserting some hint of the possible dangers involved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 20, 1949 | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

WAAB was not penalized, but the decision was a strong hint that the FCC could revoke licenses whenever it thought broadcasters were slanting the news.* Radio's biggest guns began hammering away at the decision as an unwarranted shackling of freedom of speech. To FCC's defense hurried the legions of the C.I.O. and A.F.L. and assorted left-wingers, who argued that broadcasting was a public trust and should, therefore, be impartial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Sinking of the Mayflower | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

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