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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Smiling Vagrants. The peace-pact talk, as the U.S.'s Warren Austin pointed out bitterly, was window-dressing: Moscow had spurned the U.S. offer for such a pact over Germany three years ago. The atomic-ban talk, as Britain's Ernie Bevin bluntly put it, was stupid; again & again, the U.S. had proposed genuine international control by a U.N. atomic-energy commission, and a vast Assembly majority approved the U.S.-backed plan (TIME, Dec. 20). But the Russians, while piously asking all nations to take the pledge and outlaw atomic weapons, 1) insisted that the U.S. chuck...
Then Michel, without questioning his superiors, gave Davis his wish and locked him up. The charge was vagrancy. Concluded Davis, who was 27 in July: "Six months ago I was an unconscious fool. Today I am a conscious...
...funeral of Rita Guay in Quebec three weeks ago, no one mourned more demonstratively than her husband Albert. Rita had died in the Quebec Airways plane crash on Sept. 9 which killed 23 people, including three top executives of the Kennecott Copper Corp...
Three weeks ago 23-year-old Thérèse Bourgault, for five years unable to walk without crutches, stood before Robert. "You will be cured," he pronounced, and witnesses swore that she walked away without crutches. Not all supplicants found such response. With crowds on hand from 8 a.m. till midnight, the four children had to work in shifts, were often irritable...
...platform above his confectionery store "until the Indians got back in first place," Exhibitionist Charley Lupica (TIME, Aug. 19) was invited down last week by Bill Veeck, exhibitionist president of the Cleveland baseball club. In the mathematics of the 1949 pennant race, the Indians, World Series winners a year ago, were dead. To mourn the sad occasion, Veeck, crowned with a silk hat but still without a tie (he never wears one), drove a horse-drawn hearse into Municipal Stadium with all the Indians trailing along as pallbearers and mourners. They buried last year's pennant beneath a cardboard...