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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...black man's paper Inkundhla ya Bantu warned: "The old generation of Africans who believed in resolutions, deputations, petitions and peaceful conciliations is fast dying out . . . There is growing among . . . African youth a spirit of almost uncontrollable anti-whiteism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Black Man's Burden | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...subway line. It is the first segment of a Great Circle line that will intersect the present three spokelike crosstown lines (see map). When the Great Circle is completed, the center of Moscow will have a fine system: a passenger will be able to get from almost anywhere to almost anywhere in the city by changing trains only once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: The Metro | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

George Bernard Shaw's Buoyant Billions, his first new play in almost a decade, closed in London after a five-week run-the shortest a new Shaw play has ever had in the West End. "Well," he shrugged, "I shall lose no sleep over it." To an inquiring newsman who ventured to hope that 93-year-old Shaw was well, G.B.S. snapped: "At my age, young man, you are either well or dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 14, 1949 | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...against exactly the right backgrounds. For example, he said, Betty Grable shows up fine in a curlicued Louis XV setting, and Jane Russell seems to "go with a haystack." Nicholson found one exception: Ava Gardner. "With that face and figure? Heavens, she'd stand out in front of almost anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 14, 1949 | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...California court ordered Movie Director Howard Hawks and his exwife, Nancy, to pay a year's grocery bill of $3,590. What boosted the total: 3 Ibs. of hamburger, almost daily, for the Hawks's four French poodles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 14, 1949 | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

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