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...comic books were passed out to all children, telling the absorbing story of Pedro, Ambrosia, their little daughter and their cow. First the cow gave buckets of milk, and the little girl had dolls and shoes. Then the cow got aftosa: Pedro's daughter became sad, skinny and barefoot. Finally came vaccination and the happy ending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America: Apostles at Work | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...dressed in a tan slack suit whose rayon trousers bore a conspicuous patch. Evenings, there was "paper work" (poker) in the commandant's white, jalousied house which serves as the Little White House. By 10 o'clock Harry Truman was in bed. Clark Clifford, who padded around barefoot sporting a three-day beachcomber's beard, explained contentedly, "We're getting more fun out of just sitting. My feet are getting so tough I can light a match on them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Season In the Sun | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

...million lovely girls and two million sponge rubber falsies. Most important, he has two weeks in Boston. In this time he can throw away most of the story, cut the love interest, further undress his girlies, put the spectacles back on Bobby Clark, and let him run wild--barefoot...

Author: By Burton S. Glinn., | Title: The Playgoer | 10/16/1948 | See Source »

...uncontrollable passions. Determined Lubitsch fans may find her presence there a satiric leg-pull in the Lubitsch tradition. Although Grable fans are less likely to enjoy this subtle kind of continental joke, they will at least see plenty of Betty. Caped in ermine (900 skins, $28,000) and daintily barefoot, or garbed in flossy period costumes, Betty is all over the place. She dances on the tabletop with the hussar in the skintight pants. She rides through a snowstorm. She sings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Living the Daydream | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

...barefoot girl in a slip, running by with her other clothes in her arms, dropped a pair of panties at my feet. When I handed them to her she was seized with a fit of high laughter. Two little girls in red-flowered kimonos stood by, crying loudly; their father & mother had disappeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Worse than B-29s | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

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