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...uncommon agitation last week. Ragged newsboys chewing wild oranges filled the streets, shouting thickly "Votación National!" Huge posters announced the Revolutión Nacionalista Paraguaya. Beswastikaed cops patrolled the streets. To the Colegio Alemán continually went little groups of three or four ragged, sometimes barefoot, men, solicitously escorted by well-dressed attendants who passed them inside and went forth again to seek other groups. The Colegio Alemán is one of ten electoral centers in San Roque, and in Paraguay an election is going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Heil Higinio | 2/1/1943 | See Source »

...some 'Cliffe girls would have one think. A hen party in female Cambridge is probably not much different than one at Northampton or Ann Arbor, except that at Northampton the girls wear pants. The long linoleum floors in the Quadrangle Halls resound to the childish patter of barefoot beauties; along about 11 o'clock botany sinks into the background and Men become the topic. Meows fly fast but a lot of exertion goes to trying to smoke in rooms. It's forbidden, but they manage. But the most exciting event of all was the time last year that a Harvard...

Author: By Armand SCHWAB Jr., | Title: All About Radcliffe: It Ain't Necessarily So | 12/15/1942 | See Source »

...record of foggy platitudes. No longer can he be labeled simply "Republican," with the overtones of Fishy Taftism. Willkie and the Old Guard have been estranged since his announced support of the President's foreign policy. After Monday's speech, even those tenuous bonds are finally shattered. The former "barefoot boy from Wall Street" has subjected Tory imperialism and Dollar Diplomacy to the most scathing public denunciation in recent years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Warning to the West | 10/28/1942 | See Source »

...rainy season. Their patient digging, off & on for three years, had finally uncovered this important fact: The ruined pyramid, palaces, monuments and artifacts their spades had been turning up were those of ancient Tula. For two square miles, nine feet under the dry, caked earth trod by barefoot Mexicans and their mincing burros, stretched the remains of the Toltec capital. To complete its excavation would take at least another ten years. But the Tula find already ranked historically as the most important since Carnegie Institution scientists unearthed the famed Mayan temples of Chichen Itza in Yucatan 15 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Disinterred City | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

...citizens spoke right up, dead sure that Arkansas was not the worst State but the best. Said cocky Governor Homer M. Adkins: "Arkansans are now awake to the vast wealth and attractiveness of their State." Said reformed Renegade Bob Burns: "Now take my Uncle Doug. He used to walk barefoot on a barbed-wire fence with a wildcat under each arm. You know Doug-Douglas MacArthur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARKANSAS: Prejudice & Pride | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

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