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Dates: during 1950-1950
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By such reasoning, supplemented by a good deal of digging through library stacks and tracking down the descendants of famous men, scholars have turned up some lively bits of unexpected history. They have exposed a host of literary forgeries, revealed that Poet William Wordsworth fathered an illegitimate daughter during a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Lost & Found | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

Fred Wilt would not have to return the cup. Don Gehrmann, always convinced that he had won, and hoping for the vindication that he got last week, had hung on to it through the months.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Long Mile | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

Another and more important reason is the smaller, simpler engine. The turbojet has no propeller-a very vulnerable item. It has no delicate ignition system which a few flying chunks of steel can knock out of commission. It has fewer oil lines; it can get along, in fact, with very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tough Jets | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

Every quarter-century since 1850, the owners of the Portland Oregonian (circ. 219,442) have marked the anniversary of its founding with long histories of the paper and nostalgic backward looks at the growth of the Northwest. Though the Oregonian and its surroundings changed greatly through the years, its ownership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New Northwest Territory | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

Director John Farrow works in some photogenic backgrounds of the couple's flight through Southern California. But his script and star deprive the movie of credibility. Actress Domergue smolders and storms like an overheated Theda Bara, gets some ludicrous lines to read (and gives them the delivery they warrant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 18, 1950 | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

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