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...psychological lift; he would unquestionably attract millions of "independent voters." Democrats had hoped to make hay out of Republican failure to push through reclamation projects in the West. But it would be futile to play that game against Republican Earl Warren, one of the foremost spokesmen of the eager-beaver West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: To Make a Good Society | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

...American Democracy is such a study. Readers are not likely to rank it (as his eager-beaver publishers do) with De Tocqueville's Democracy in America (1835) and Lord Bryce's American Commonwealth (1888). But they will find that it stands head & shoulders above the kind of superficial once-over exemplified by, say, John Gunther's Inside U.S.A. (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Executioner Awaits | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

Side-Swipe. In Rome, Wis., Motorist Frank Beaver swerved violently to avoid a dog on a bridge, knocked down the bridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 24, 1948 | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

...Though Lord Beaver-brook's opinions color much of the news in the Express, the paper also reports many events that contravene his editorial views. And in The Beaver's Evening Standard, Cartoonist David Low goes right on poking fun at The Beaver's ruggedly individualistic stand. But Lord Beaverbrook's strictures on the U.S. have convinced many a Briton that the Daily Express is consciously and consistently anti-American. Actually it is friendly toward the U.S., but hostile to much of its policy and actions. The total impression the Express gives is that what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Beaver's World | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

...Said beaver-toothed Joe DiMaggio, with a grin: "Seems like it's the first time I've ever been ready for an opening game." No gimpy shoulder, no ulcer complaints, no bad heel troubled him this year: he felt good. If DiMag was ready, so were the New York Yankees. They were co-favorites-along with the Boston Red Sox-to win the American League pennant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Oh, Yes, the Yankees | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

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