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...Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad, bearded by the press and attempting an explanation of British tolerance of demi-bared bosoms in the cinema: "Perhaps it is because we have a longer past. We know that often in our history women have worn low-cut dresses, and it doesn't shock us that Jane Russell looks more like a woman than any woman ought to look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Royalty | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

...average man has about eleven pints of blood. Loss of more than a third usually causes profound shock, from which the body can seldom be revived even by transfusion. But at the Cleveland Clinic, two top-rank U.S. scientists have succeeded in reversing "irreversible" shock in revolutionary blood experiments on dogs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Quick v. the Dead | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

Amazingly painless" and "I had too much anyway" were comments of blood-givers after their donations yesterday. "Greatest shock of my life," cooed a prissy 'Cliffedweller, "it wasn't blue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quota of Blood Short As Drive Ends Today | 11/13/1946 | See Source »

Winning an Argument. The shock of the Socialist-Communist pact was aug mented by surprise. Since last spring, when left-wing Socialist Pietro Nenni and Communist leader Palmiro ("Hercules") Togliatti put their heads together in a vain attempt at merger, the political tides in Italy and the rest of Europe had been running against the Communists. Embarrassed by Russia's insistence that Italy must give up Trieste, Togliatti had received the indignant resignations of 8,000 Roman Communists in a single day. The Socialists had appointed Sandro Pertini to conduct their negotiations with the Reds, and since Pertini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Two Bombs | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

...Madison, making his second appearance on the silver screen in "Till the End of Time," makes great use of the same three qualities that have already endeared him to the bobbysox brigade: a great shock of blond hair, a habit of grinning upward from beneath the shock, and his sensible decision not to complicate his art with the unmanly, finer points of acting. Dorothy McGuire, who is east as Pat, Guy's galfriend, although female and fetching, apparently can't get used to the thought of not being Clandia and has trouble groping her misty-eyed way through this picture...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/29/1946 | See Source »

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