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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Normal State. In Austin, Tex., Attorney Wright Stubbs, defending a woman charged with drunken driving, shook the prosecution's main piece of evidence with a telling argument: "Talkativeness is certainly no evidence of intoxication in the case of a woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 14, 1949 | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...cool, unruffled speaker with a shy, dry wit and an impressive talent for fashioning an air-tight argument, Jessup was a welcome change from the windy speechifying of ailing Delegate Warren Austin and the arm-pumping forensics of Texas' minor statesman, Tom Connally. He soon began to carry more & more of the U.S. load: the debates over Palestine and Indonesia, the showdown last fall on Berlin. After Lawyer Jessup had demolished Lawyer Vishinsky in the Berlin debate with a damning, well-documented indictment of Russian policy (TIME, Oct. 18, 1948), one Western European delegate commented admiringly: "That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Stand-In | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

Other United States skating entries also placed high in the competition. James Grogan of Oakland, California, was fourth. Hayes Allen Jenkins of Akron, Ohio, and Austin Holt of Berkeley, California, finished sixth and seventh, respectively...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Button Retains World Skating Title | 2/18/1949 | See Source »

With his new four-cylinder models, Nuffield promised to give Lord a stiff race for U.S. sales. The Morris Minor convertibles (see cut) and sedans will retail for $1,555 or less in New York (v. Austin's $1,595); the slightly bigger Morris Oxford for $2,100. Smaller than U.S. cars (147½ inches overall v. 196¾ inches for Fords), the Minors get 35 miles to the gallon, have a top speed of 65 m.p.h...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Minor Bid | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

Muggy Mugasoth, who learned to play squash in Bombay, India is number two. Wynn particularly likes his good placement and drop shots. Next on the ladder stands Austin Flagg, an accurate placer who usually manages to hold the center court position...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

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