Word: ago
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fifty-seven years ago Oscar Wilde, in his play Lady Winder mere's Fan, said: "In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. The last is much the worst, the last is areal tragedy." Behind several Shavian faces is the laughing ghost of Oscar Wilde...
Scared and skinny in a $10 coat, I showed up for my first modeling job for Vogue nine years ago, and shared a dressing room with Lisa Fonssagrives [TIME, Sept...
...letter telling of the continuing hunger for uncensored information behind the Iron Curtain. It reports how a small courageous group of Czechs still manages to get news from the outside world, despite the ban which was imposed on TIME, LIFE and 25 other foreign publications 18 months ago at the time of the Communist coup...
Roman J. Halla, 23, arrived in the U.S. a few weeks ago after a year spent as a D.P. in Germany, where he worked as an interpreter for the U.S. Army while waiting for his chance to come here. When the Communists took over Czechoslovakia, Halla was a student at Prague's famed, freedom-loving Charles University, from which he was promptly expelled for demonstrating with other students against the new Communist regime. At this juncture, foreign publications, including TIME, were admitted to the country but never reached the newsstands. Halla believed the bundles were destroyed when they reached...
Hearing that the job was still open a week ago Thursday, Roberts tried to get it. He charged that James MacFarland, Whouley's manager, told him that the only job available was from 12 midnight to 2 a.m. Hazen's closes at midnight and Whouley admitted yesterday that there never was a midnight to 2 a.m. position in his restaurant...