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...That ardent disciple of nonpartisanship, who has made it work for the second most populous state in the Union . . . Governor Earl Warren of California . . . J. L. ROSENBERG Sacramento, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 11, 1950 | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

...vote was a reversal for the once high-hopeful, go-fast faction. Led by the French and Italians, the ardent federalists had urged an immediate supranational authority; last summer they seemed to have the support of the most of the Consultative Assembly. But British Socialists adamantly refused to go along. They stood for union, they insisted, but not union now. First, to protect Britain's planned economy, there should be a "functional" approach through which the nations could get together in particular economic, social, cultural and other fields. As an example of what they meant, the British cited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Union | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

Poll Watcher. In Detroit, Mrs. George Atkinson complained that her husband, an ardent Republican, shoved her out of the car when she told him she had voted the straight Democratic ticket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 27, 1950 | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

...London Daily Express wondered whether authors like to reread their own books, asked a few, found Evelyn Wauqh an ardent admirer of Waugh, especially his latest novel Helena, which he had read "20 times" since its publication...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Golden Moments | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

...song & dance. The book's love story has been revamped and overblown: its Spanish heroine (now French, presumably to accommodate the studio's contract with France's Micheline Prelle) is married to a wealthy Filipino planter but conveniently widowed in plenty of time to get ardent comfort from Hero Power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 27, 1950 | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

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