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Chief Randall's office is the nerve-center for the extensive defense plans of the weekend. Randall would not detail any tactics--"Security, you know."--but his men are on a split-second schedule, the same sort of schedule that they used so well against Brown's invaders. "We've got everything covered. They'll run right into our arms...

Author: By Gene R. Kearney, | Title: 135 Police Braced for Eli Invaders, Scalpers, Mobs | 11/16/1948 | See Source »

...when no taxes were paid. K-F's earnings were tax-free because of a carry-back). But K-F's third-quarter net of $2,058,000 was almost 74% below tax-free 1947-Divorce. A federal district court approved Howard Hughes's proposal to split RKO's picture-making organization from its theaters, create two separate companies (TIME, Nov. 8), in effect setting a pattern by which Hollywood's major companies could make their peace with antitrust (TIME, Oct. 11). RKO will sell its interest in all but 30 of its 241 partly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Facts & Figures, Nov. 15, 1948 | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...finish-from the time she heard her heavenly voices, as a farm girl at Domremy, to her anguished death at the stake. At times the meticulous history lesson dulls the drama. The storming of Orleans is supposedly as historically correct as research could make it, down to the last split skull and link of armor; but on film it adds up to noisy and not altogether convincing movie battle. Once the picture loses sight of the fact that it is Joan's personal story, she becomes a lifeless symbol in a pageant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 15, 1948 | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...swallowed with a minimum of disgust. For France cannot have political stability without this recovery, and a chaotic France means, to a large extent, a chaotic Europe. But it is unlikely that de Gaulle can bring recovery back to France. His advent to power will only mean a further split in that country, and in Europe. The West must place its hopes with the socialist moderates who now hold shaky authority, and recognize that a de Gaulle government will be a damaging defeat for the free world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: De Gaulle Gains | 11/13/1948 | See Source »

...poll will be split into two sections...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Will Poll Girls on Joint Exams | 11/12/1948 | See Source »

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