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In Power Without Glory, a neurotic young man finds that he has just committed a murder. What's more interesting, his respectable working-class family find that they now harbor a murderer. The household sways with all the emotions-incredulity, pity, horror - born of the event; and with more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Jan. 26, 1948 | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

A Beat Behind. San Francisco was only a beat behind in belatedly discovering the greatness of Béla Bartók's music (TIME, March 18, 1946). Most listeners had stumbled on Bartók's harsh, stubborn harmonies, his jagged rhythms, and never got through to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: San Francisco Cheers | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

Flight 608 was a giant four-motored DC-6 which had taken off from Los Angeles at 9:23 a.m., two hours before, bound for New York with 47 passengers and a crew of five. As soon as the ship's veteran pilot, 42-year-old Captain E. L...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORT: Sending Blind | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

Father Macelwane discovered the air vibrations ten years ago when testing a colleague's theory that small tremors in the earth (microseisms) are caused by changes in the atmosphere. He built an oversized barometer which makes a wiggly line on a strip of paper to indicate minute variations of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Something in the Air | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

Sister Clodagh (Deborah Kerr) is appointed Superior; as it turns out, she is a bit too young and imperious for the job. Sister Briony (Judith Furse) is taken along for her medical knowledge. Sister Honey (Jenny Laird) is a gentle creature, a tonic for jangled nerves. Sister Philippa (Flora Robson...

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

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