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The Future. Even with Bocchiccio picking up the tab, Walcott is one of the skimpiest eaters big-time heavyweight boxing has ever known. After a five-mile run he breakfasts on prunes, two eggs, a lamb chop, tea and toast. Then comes a mile walk, a nap until noon (he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Challenger | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

In Philadelphia, civic corruption is like the pigeons that swarm in City Hall courtyard. Both are nourishing, messy and endemic. Now & then someone gets exasperated, picks up a big stick and chases them. After a great clatter of wings, everything settles down again-the pigeons in the courtyard, the rascals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: Chasing Pigeons | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

This plodding historical novel may possibly go like wildfire in the lending libraries, or even in Hollywood. The married life of long-suffering Alis and oafish Ansiau is described in great, sometimes tedious detail. Miss Oldenbourg's canvas is wide but her stitches are painstakingly small. Heroine Alis settles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Medieval Tapestry | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

Private Life. He and his wife have lived in Washington's Wardman Park Hotel for the last 18 years. After a day at the Capitol, he gets into a pair of old grey slacks, settles down to skim official reports, read history, or clip newspapers for his scrapbooks, tries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: WHO'S WHO IN THE GOP: VANDENBERG | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

Bill and Coo (Republic), after assuring you of your sanity in a well-advised prologue (with a glimpse of Producer Ken Murray and a couple of other human beings), settles down to its real business and drifts serenely out of this world. The actors and extras, in this astounding film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Apr. 12, 1948 | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

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