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In the unseasonably humid Brazilian fall, the men sweated damply in woolen suits or sported open-necked shirts and cruise clothes. Their wives, dressed in everything from purple voile to tweeds, seemed positively dowdy to Rio, where the "New Look" has swept skirts down almost to the ankle. In the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: But Nice | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

Like many actors, he is sanguine about a piece of work while he is at it, but he soon cools into a stern self-critic. During the filming of Duel in the Sun, he talked -jocosely, to be sure-about out-heeling Satan and out-Laurencing Olivier. Now he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Leading Man | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

Elder Statesman Bernard M. Baruch is a doctor's son. In the last few years, vigorous, health-minded Bernie Baruch has given millions for the advancement of medical education and research. Last week he talked like a Dutch uncle to a Manhattan gathering of 600 medicos and hospital administrators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dutch-Uncle Talk | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

He designated two people to run things for him: Ohio Representative Clarence J. Brown, bull-throated, bull-necked newspaper publisher who once directed a Knox-for-President movement, was tactical director of the 1946 G.O.P. election campaign, and claims the smelt-eating championship of the U.S. Congress; and Mrs. Katharine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Taft Declares | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

This week, as the Dodgers raced toward the finish seven games ahead, it was at least arguable that Jackie Robinson had furnished the margin of victory. The Dodgers are certainly not a one-man ball club. They have a bull-necked powerhouse of a catcher named Bruce Edwards, 24, whose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rookie of the Year | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

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