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With the Kaiser-Liberty ship bonanza, the government went into the shipping business full time. It was a temptation at the outset to attach the Merchant Marine training program, already under government control, to an expanded Merchant fleet, constructed under government expense, in a nationalized Merchant Navy along the lines of the British scheme. The fearsome prospect of financing a gigantic post-war merchant marine with pre-war deficit-subsidy black magic was like nursing an infant until it was in long pants. The problem of training personnel, of maintaining close supervision over shipping movements and dispositions, would have been...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brass Tacks | 9/19/1946 | See Source »

Hardly were the negatives dry when the motion pictures of Test Baker at Bikini were rushed to Paris' Paramount Theater. But peace conferees were too busy to bother with the atom bomb. Some 150 delegates saw the film-but they were minor functionaries and military attach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STRATEGY: Speak Softly | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

Married. Princess Laetitia Murat, 24, great-great-grandniece of Napoleon Bonaparte; and Lieut. Charles R. Codman Jr., 24, assistant military attaché of the U.S. Embassy in Paris; both for the first time; in Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 29, 1946 | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

Naomi-Margret Sevetson was not original in her ideas when she told you that "men are beasts" [TIME, June 24]. What would be original would be an explanation as to why women are willing-sometimes anxious-to attach themselves to such beasts. The obvious reply from many female breasts, would be: "Because women are such fools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 15, 1946 | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

Although some prestige might attach itself to the uniqueness of a choir which ranges in the lower octaves, little of the praise will be reserved for the programming. Composers of church music have never been forced to leave sopranos out of their chorales in order that their genius might be reserved for masculine choirs in a men's college. The mixed group of 35 which has sung for Memorial Church services for three years has been able to bring with it a selection of religious music hitherto unheard in the Yard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Exodus | 5/16/1946 | See Source »

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