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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days later he brought Chou En-lai south for more parleys in Chungking. Fortnight ago Chou returned to Yenan with a proposal from Chiang Kai-shek for a Chinese united front (TIME, Dec. 18). For all Pat Hurley's war whoops, his easy jokes, his readiness to act as an intermediary, the gulf between the Communists and the Central Government was still unbridged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Yahoo! | 1/1/1945 | See Source »

Premier George Papandreou and EAM were both reportedly agreed on the person of Archbishop Damaskinos, strapping (6 ft. 4 in.), black-bearded prelate who had gone to the Church from the wrestling ring. The respected Archbishop himself had agreed to act for the King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: With All Arms | 1/1/1945 | See Source »

When artists get concerned with politics, they act like other citizens. Last week in Modern Music magazine five famous European composers, now in the U.S., tried to answer a purely political question: what should be done to Europe's collaborationist composers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Citizens or Children? | 1/1/1945 | See Source »

General Marshall called for interchangeable human parts. Men were trained to act as fighters in whatever divisional machine they found themselves. Until they were assigned they were called, appropriately, "casuals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Spare Parts | 12/25/1944 | See Source »

...Lenore Lonergan) has long and lushly corresponded-in the name of her older sister Ruth-with a young overseas flyer. Suddenly the flyer (John Dall) turns up, all set to marry Ruth-who is all set to marry someone else. To soften the blow, Ruth (Virginia Gilmore) agrees to act out for a little the role that Miriam has cast her in. It starts off all innocent merriment, but winds up with more romance than Ruth had bargained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Dec. 25, 1944 | 12/25/1944 | See Source »

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