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...harried retailer summed up: "My clerks feel like keepers at the zoo with no food for the animals at feeding time." AH over the U.S., underwear, men's suits and shirts and women's stockings were scarcer than ever before. Stores brave enough to advertise a small shipment of any of the precious items warned customers that they shopped at their own risk (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), occasionally had to call police to quell riots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shirt Off Your Back | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

...recall of the French consul general in Shanghai, because the French had shanghaied an alleged collaborator named Tosoli (wanted by the new all-Chinese Municipal Government) , and shipped him off to Indo-China. But Gallic jitters vanished when the Embassy learned that the students had already served protests elsewhere. "Ah," said a spokesman, "everybody is in trouble, out? That's much better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: That's Much Better! | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

...Moslem League's shrewd, elegant President Mohamed AH Jinnah put it coolly: "India has never been a nation. It only looks that way on a map. ... I want to eat the cow the Hindu worships. When the Hindu shakes hands with me, he must go wash his hands. Our religion is not all. Culture, history, customs, all make Moslem India a different nation from Hindu India. The Moslem has nothing in common with the Hindu except his slavery to the British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: INDIA | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

...Salisbury, Md., an amateur in the audience gushed to Violist William Primrose: "Ah, you can't get away from the old Italian instrument makers!" In South America, critics rhapsodized over the tones of his "marvelous Amati...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Master | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

Claghorn: Your mouth is open, but nothin's comin' out. Don't hold it in, ah say, don't hold it in. Ah can't read your mind, your mind, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Claghorn's the Name | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

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