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Aug. 31, 1948

Alfred Hitchcock's Rope caused high-fiber movie chills, Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead was the top best-seller, the nation did the ''Twelfth Street Rag,'' and Ed Sullivan's Toast of the Town was rilly big on TV.

Originally posted Sep 04, 1992 Published in issue #134 Sep 04, 1992 Order article reprints

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