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...people who administer the Marshall Plan in Paris got a shock last week. They had hired a French public opinion expert in July to poll his country on what it thought of American aid, and last week he made his report. According to this poll, most of the French hadn't heard of the Marshall Plan, and those who had didn't particularly like...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 12/17/1949 | See Source »

...White Collar Zoo is a collection of 73 brightly captioned pictures illustrating a well-known truth: that the posturings and expressions of any group of human beings and those of an animal farm are obviously and sometimes hilariously interchangeable. White Collar's success can be traced to the shock of recognition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Beast In Us | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Sloth slept with his eyes wide open in a sticky skein of cobwebs, and Anger was a spiky, comic-book monster which had just smashed a blood-spattered plate-glass window. Lust, the shock of the group-as well as the bottom in bad taste-was a leering, loathsome human figure, festooned with genitalia and en-ries cased in a prophylactic tube...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sin in Frames | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...adult physical passion and adolescent instability. Miss Presle, a beautiful and sincere actress, appears convincingly confused as she depicts the feelings of the subjugated bourgeoise. Excellent support is given the stars by the tender performance of Jean Debucourt as the father of the school boy, by the well portrayed shock and righteous indignation of Denise Grey as the young bride's mother...

Author: By Roy M. Goodman, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 11/29/1949 | See Source »

...ambassador has contrived such varied aids to modern life as self-winding watches, shock absorbers and mine-detecting devices; but his greatest love is the theater. Leaning back behind his cluttered desk in Manhattan this week, he spoke enthusiastically of his longtime friendship with impresarios Morris Gest and David Belasco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Friendly Showman | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

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