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In the best backhanded Soviet fashion, Stalin gave Russians their first news of the offer Ernie Bevin announced Feb. 21: to turn the 20-year Anglo-Russian friendship pact into a 50-year treaty. Stalin said that Churchill's warmongering speech made the present pact "an empty scrap of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Stalin Takes the Stump | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

Amiable Don Budge, a freckle-faced six-footer, whose strong point on the court is his backhand, expertly backhanded: Bobby is "amusing, acts awfully young for his age [28] and doesn't mean half what he says." Not yet in prewar form, he was still confident: "There's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Man with No Weakness | 3/18/1946 | See Source »

Ginger Rogers and five other clotheshorses were touted by Fashion Designer Ray Driscoll as his favorites for the backhanded title: Hollywood's Worst-Dressed Women. Proclaimed Driscoll: Ginger "doesn't dress." Betty Hutton "wears too much of everything." Joan Leslie "tries to dress like a teen-ager." Judy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Feb. 25, 1946 | 2/25/1946 | See Source »

The strength of the South Pacific fleet was the Navy's own and carefully guarded secret. One clue was the quiet confidence of Navy men. Admiral Ramsey said cryptically : "The situation has improved greatly down there in recent months." He also declared: "Their probable available first-line carrier strength...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Hot for the Jap | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

In a backhanded blast at the slicker-dicker sort of U.S. truck builder, ODT's Bill Cumming, chief of its Vehicle Maintenance Section, snorted that after World War II smart fleet operators will demand a general sacrifice of "looks" and "streamlining" to efficiency, will insist on trucks with cabs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Unstreamlined Future | 10/19/1942 | See Source »

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