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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Manners & Morals. All in all, the best novels of the year came from Britain. George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four was a grim warning of what the latter stages of statism could be like. A Book-of-the-Month Club choice and a bestseller, it was a happy combination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Year in Books, Dec. 19, 1949 | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

NON-FICTION The war, the uneasy peace and the many-directioned search for personal and world repose accounted for most of the year's best-read books. No war books achieved the popularity of Eisenhower's Crusade in Europe or Sherwood's Roosevelt and Hopkins. From Winston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Year in Books, Dec. 19, 1949 | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Seasonal. In San Antonio, a sunburned Santa Claus refused to continue work in Joske's outdoor toyland until the store shaded his chuckwagon throne with an awning.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 19, 1949 | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

The Chase. In Iowa, investigation showed why an Anamosa-Clinton branch line freight train had been consistently running late: its crew had taken to stopping in the country to pot rabbits and quail.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 19, 1949 | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

The Breaking Point. In Salem, Mass., Mrs. Lorraine Feys sued for divorce on grounds that her husband threw knives and a flatiron at her, pushed her down a stairway, struck her across the chest with an ironing board, tried to toss her out of a window. In Waukegan, Ill., Mrs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 19, 1949 | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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