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Officials announced that a lighted cigarette fell from an ashtray onto the sofa and set the room ablaze. The firemen got the fire under control by throwing the burning furniture out of the windows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Busy School Blaze Causes $1,000 Loss | 12/18/1951 | See Source »

There is always a new quirk of interior decorating in the STUDIO SHOP at 557 Boylston Street in Boston. Newest are the highball glasses and ashtray above embellished with cartoons by Steig, Cobean, and Taylor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Christmas: The Crimson Suggests . . . | 12/6/1951 | See Source »

With Some It Takes Longer. Did Vogeler want to repudiate his confession at the trial? Vogeler slowly crushed his cigarette in an ashtray. Said he: "There was some truth in it." But he added: "It is just a question of time before you confess. With some it takes a little longer than others, but nobody can resist that treatment indefinitely." Reporters took away the impression that they had not yet heard the whole story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: It Could Happen to Anybody | 5/7/1951 | See Source »

...headquarters, Magsaysay pounded the table so hard that the ashtray bounced, and barked orders: "Put more men in and around Manila. I want every suspicious person searched, and every suspicious house raided. Get every soldier in the provinces alerted. Keep pounding on all known Huk lairs. Burn the Huks out of Candaba swamps. There are 8,000 Huks in the country. That makes five Huks to each one of our platoons. Let us make this week the liquidation week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Hope Against the Huks | 4/9/1951 | See Source »

...Lovely Color. At Labor headquarters, too, it was exciting-in a different way. Morgan Phillips was feverishly scribbling calculations on bits of blue paper. One Laborite looked at the news ticker, whispered, "We're down to 24." Everyone heard him. The ticker throbbed on. Phillips' ashtray overflowed. He sat back silent, jaw in hand; then he got up, glanced out of the window, sat down again and lighted another cigarette. The voice at the ticker spoke again: "We're down to four-no, three-no, four . . ." At 4:45 p.m. Phillips looked across the room toward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: We Can't Run Away | 3/6/1950 | See Source »

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