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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nothing like it had been seen in the majestic shadow of the Roman Forum since Brutus stabbed Julius Caesar on the Ides of March. One hundred yards from the spot where Caesar fell, divorced* Tyrone Power married a Hollywood starlet named Linda Christian in the Church of Santa Francesca Romana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERIPATETICS: And Circuses | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

...spent Groundhog Day quietly, but darted an occasional glance around her cage in search of the proverbial shadow, Poor lighting rendered her vigilance fruitless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University's Cagey Groundhog Frustrated | 2/3/1949 | See Source »

...useful fact, but it proves very little so far as this particular issue is concerned. It does show that Premier Stalin's statement to the press was not necessarily made in good faith; but it does not show that the statement was necessarily and beyond the shadow of a doubt made in bad faith. It would have to do that to prove that the situation implied by the phrase "peace offensive" actually exists. And the only way to discover whether or not that situation does exist, as Walter Lippmann has pointed out, the only way, in fact, for the United...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Counter-Offensive | 2/1/1949 | See Source »

Mind in the Shadow (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). Documentary on mental illness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Jan. 31, 1949 | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

Murch's paintings, on view in a Manhattan gallery last week, had all the dim, cold calm of false dawn. They were done with dead-eye accuracy, in greenish gobs of shadow laced with silvery threads and buttons of light. He had put the paint on thickly, Murch explained, because "that helps create a thing out of the painting itself." Among his table-top subjects were a dead bird, a dead fish poised on a clinker, an ancient phonograph, and assorted eggs, lemons and potatoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: On the Table | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

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