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...Korea-a nod from Moscow could have stopped the Red attack at any time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Soft Talk | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

...Warden doesn't start today at right half, the nod will go to Wylie. A junior who played some varsity ball last year, Wylie is a capable runner and blocker, but, like Isenberg and Warden, he will need to pick up good downfield blocking to break away...

Author: By Bayley F. Mason, | Title: Lowenstein, West Are Key Men for Success of New Crimson Backfield | 10/7/1950 | See Source »

Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (Warner) sends Hollywood's aging (46) tough guy James Cagney off on another gay whirl of crime. Cast as the same strutting, wisecracking thug he played so often in the '30s (now, in a fleeting nod to movie progress, labeled a paranoiac), Cagney kills six men, breaks out of a chain gang, pulls off a couple of daring heists, blackmails a bribe-taking cop (Ward Bond) and viciously swats a blonde moll (Barbara Payton) with a rolled-up towel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Sep. 4, 1950 | 9/4/1950 | See Source »

...great extent during the World War II scarcity of narcotics ... [a nemmie] helped them to smooth out the rough edges when the yen (from yen-shee, the scrapings of the inside of an opium pipe) for a "fix" or shot became strong. By "goofing off or going on the nod they entered a state ranging from mild intoxication to complete unconsciousness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 28, 1950 | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

Luscious Patricia Morison, who was on her uppers in filmdom before she romped and trilled through the Broadway smash Kiss Me, Kate, noted a change in the California climate: "A week or so ago when I sang at the Hollywood Bowl . . . people who used to nod and say 'Hello, Pat' . . . came dashing backstage and threw their arms around me, shouting 'Dahling, you were wonderful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Aug. 28, 1950 | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

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