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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bleak Nichol Island, off Nova Scotia's east coast, a lone white house stands above the rocky shoreline. One day last fortnight Lightkeeper James Richard Hutt, 33, picked up his shotgun, set off down the shore to add some ducks and rabbits to the family larder. By dusk he had not returned. His slight, dark-haired wife, Pauline, climbed the steep steps of the lighthouse tower, and lit the twin wicks herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: NOVA SCOTIA: Lighthouse Saga | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

...doors swung open and ex-Convict Stiles, who had tried to keep his mother from knowing about his prison sentence, found him self surrounded by eager sob-sisters and reporters. He was also the reluctant hero of a mushy radio program which stressed his San Quentin record. To add to his troubles, the Navy seemed reluctant to sponsor his "invention." The National Research Council was looking into it, but thought the hand did not differ materially from several others of the same type...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Stiles's Hand | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

...struck, or the President turns up unexpectedly in Missouri, or "Pappy" Boyington takes a wife, our own correspondents are there to give us the extra details of those events-from the local point of view. The reports from all these correspondents, and the editorial guidance that they send us, add up to TIME'S national point of view...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Feb. 4, 1946 | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

Szell, 48, is a tall, near-bald, thick-spectacled Czech-Hungarian, who conducted the Berlin State Opera B.H. (Before Hitler). A stern, formal leader, he has since 1942 conducted some of the Metropolitan Opera's best-disciplined performances. He plans to add eight men to the Cleveland orchestra, to bring its membership to 92. Said he: "A new leaf will be turned over with a bang! People talk about the New York, the Boston, and the Philadelphia. Now they will talk about the New York, the Boston, the Philadelphia and the Cleveland." Thus top success was in sight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Talk about Cleveland | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

...special commission of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Through a series of dams, canals and reservoirs, G.V.P. would provide an all-water route from Archangel to Batum. Involving cities, towns and villages where 50 million Russians live, it would install 14 new hydroelectric power stations. It would add enough water to the Volga to maintain-or lift-the level of the Caspian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Up Sea, Back Rivers | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

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