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...Viva! Viva!" It has been about 15 years since De Gasperi dug his climbing boots and pickax into an Alp, but he still suffers the mountaineer's fever-the looking for other peaks to climb while still chivvying and picking his way up the peak beneath his feet. "He always sees the next summit," explained a friend. Last week in Genoa, where bombed-out ruins of the past are still visible behind the shiny new fagades of the present, he stood before a mass of dockworkers and shipworkers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Man from the Mountains | 5/25/1953 | See Source »

...thing that may clinch the election for Dewey could be the few thousand anti-Dewey votes that are wasted on the American Labor Party nominee. The ALP, Vito Marcantonio's group, has been widely tagged with the Red label and is not expected to draw many votes, especially since the Korean War. However, in a really close election the marginal ballots could make the difference...

Author: By Frank B. Gilbert, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 11/1/1950 | See Source »

...floats had a Swiss alp built on it and a sign which said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 17, 1950 | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

...White Tower (RKO Radio] is a mythical Swiss Alp, so high and treacherous that no climber has ever reached the top. Created by James Ramsey Ullman in his 1945 bestselling novel and recreated in Technicolor on Alpine locations, it is the setting of a carefully rigged story about six climbers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 17, 1950 | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

...publishers call The Eye of God (the name of the local mountain) a novel. It isn't. Anecdotes don't make a novel any more than edelweiss make an alp; but when Bemelmans does the picking, they make a bright nosegay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nosegay | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

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