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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...designed ; and Mr. Bulfinch would praise Bakr's work on our Stafe Capitol; but no son of the Commonwealth could ever accept that dried-up thing Baker conjured up as a codfish! Ernest Hamlin Baker should change his fish market . . . His caudal fin, dorsal fins, maxillary, eye, missing barbel, etc., have turned our Sacred Cod into a hunk of gurry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 7, 1953 | 9/7/1953 | See Source »

After two weeks' care in a local hospital, eight-year-old Barbel last week would still eat no solid food and could utter no word. But for the first time in her life, she was playing-apparently happily-with other children. In a prison nearby, mother Rosa awaited trial for gross negligence (maximum sentence: five years at hard labor). "I was so ashamed. I was so ashamed," she muttered again & again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: The Prisoner in the Attic | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

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