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...appeared on his birth certificate, unbeknown to him or his parents, because one of his aunts "had a peculiar penchant for naming babies Philip." As confusion piled on top of contradiction, Judge Medina clasped both hands over his head in bewilderment. Medina's patience was beginning to grow thin: when Defense Attorney George W. Crockett Jr. got into the wrangling, he was also cited for contempt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: No. 5 | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...enormously successful Goldberg scripts have an apple-dumpling flavor-sugary, smooth as butter, pastry-thin in plot and heavily spiced with Bronxisms. What keeps this confection from cloying is Author Berg's tart recognition of human frailties and her blunt but understanding sense of humor. Besides writing, co-directing and bossing her show with an iron will, Gertrude Berg plays Molly, the Goldberg matriarch, with a full complement of shrugs, flutters, malapropisms and a passionate capacity for making something dramatic of the commonplace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: Life with Molly | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...donor's blood is put, to serve as a priming charge. The veins returning blood to the subject's heart are closed by clamps, and the blood from these veins is pumped into the machine. Revolved 50 to 100 times a minute, the blood spreads into a thin film on the sides of the drum. It absorbs oxygen, which is pumped into the drum, and gives off carbon dioxide, which is withdrawn. Then the refreshed blood is pumped back into the body through an artery. The machine is governed at every step by electrical controls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Last Field | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...knows why. One theory: the thin nylon cords are almost invisible in the water. Another: nylon, which sheds slimy growths, holds the fish more firmly. Still another possibility: the shiny nylon glitters and attracts the fish like a polished spinner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Good Fishing | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...actress, floated Lisa Fonssagrives. There was Lisa in a little black moire number (by Jacques Fath); there was Lisa invitingly recumbent in a black lace and taffeta ensemble (by Janet Taylor); there was Lisa wistfully bored in tulle, for McCallum stockings ("You just know she wears them"). Thin, slightly bony, gowned and groomed with superhuman perfection, she was undeniably beautiful, but in her pictures a bit distant and ethereal, and not altogether real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Billion-Dollar Baby | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

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