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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most significant remarks touched on Canada's relations with Latin America. Said Pearson: "We should broaden and deepen our association with the Latin republics of this hemisphere." That was the nearest any cabinet minister had ever come to saying that Canada should join the Pan-American Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Flexed Muscles | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...Gustaf of Sweden, 91, and his brothers, Prince Oscar Bernadotte, 90, and Prince Carl, 88, threw caution to the winds at a birthday party for Oscar in Stockholm's Drottningholm Castle. Abandoning their rigid spartan diet, they gorged themselves on a few favorite dishes of their youth: lobster American, goose liver, partridge, champagne, ice cream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 28, 1949 | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

Last week, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the Food & Drug Administration's Dr. Arnold J. Lehman gave the answer for which U.S. women have not bothered to wait: cold-wave kits are safe-if used as directed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Nod & a Wave | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...biggest gripes of U.S. railroaders is that their barge-line competitors use the federal-maintained inland waterways, and that trucks and buses use highways also built with tax dollars. "We don't want subsidies," said William T. Faricy, president of the Association of American Railroads last week, "but if the Government persists in subsidizing our competitors, we may have to accept them." If that threatened socialization, he added: "You could also have socialization by simply running out of money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Red Signal | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

That essential freshness had been carefully guarded by an American painter named DeWitt Peters, who went to Haiti six years ago to teach English and remained to open the first and only art center in Port-au-Prince. To Peters' surprise, Haitians flocked to the new Centre d'Art with pictures for his approval. Even more surprising was the fact that half the pictures they showed him were interesting. Peters supplied his protégés with painting materials, judiciously refrained from criticizing their work. Eventually he teamed up with American Poet Selden Rodman, whose Renaissance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: As a Cock Crows | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

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