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...over Korea flew very low; sometimes a pilot had to look at the people he shot. On one mission, Tatum was firing into some troops moving along the road. With them walked an elderly woman. She was hit, and literally exploded: she had obviously been carrying ammunition in her pack. "That I don't like. If you have never seen arms and legs flying through the air . . ." says Tatum, his sentence dangling like a severed limb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEN AT WAR: Destiny's Draftee | 1/1/1951 | See Source »

...Regents last week, "when we as a nation must request some form of universal national service from all our young men and women . . ." To clear the way for general inductions at 18, the top policy body of New York's public school system recommended that high schools pack their standard four-year courses into three. Suggested expedients: wider use of summer classes and, "in some instances," heavier study loads during regular semesters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Patriotic Duty | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

Into one hour last week, CBS tried to pack all the news of the previous seven days. Listeners to Hear It Now (Fri. 9 p.m.) heard "drama for the ear" that originated in the trampled snow of North Korea, the drapery-hung walls of Lake Success and on the quarter-deck of the battleship Missouri...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Hear It Now | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

Leading the Gallic pack are Orpheus and Ways of Love. The latter is a trilogy involving three directors, Marcel Pagnol, Renoir, and the Italian Roberto Ressellinl; Anna Magnani contributes. At the Paris (58th off Fifth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NYC Seethes with Entertainment for Holidays | 12/19/1950 | See Source »

...still the India-born British orphan who has grown up as a sun-bleached native urchin in the clutter of Lahore. His best friends: a wandering Tibetan lama (Paul Lukas) and Horse Trader Flynn, who doubles as a spy. Recognized by the British, who pack him off to a pukka school, Kim plays hooky, picks up some tutoring in espionage and pits his wits against the Russians who are stirring up trouble on the other side of the Khyber Pass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 11, 1950 | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

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