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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tolling Bell. In the last few weeks help of a more substantial (and, for the Greek army, more ominous) kind has been piling up on Greece's northwestern borders. Over the two main roads leading to villages on the Albanian side of the border, there has been a steady movement of convoys bringing up supplies. Nightly their lights bob and weave among the hills. Nightly mule trains wind across the rough hill tracks into Greece. Villages on the Albanian side of the border, for a depth of 30 miles, have been practically cleared of civilians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Captain of the Crags | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

...Free" Greek radio also was stepping up its boasts. Last week it broadcast: "The bell is tolling for the great spring offensive. . . . Now is the time to close our ranks . . . for final victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Captain of the Crags | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

...Pietro and, in its encircling colonnades, a multitude of more than 350,000 people, who overflowed into the adjoining streets and lined the nearby roofs. Overhead swooped two planes, scattering Christian Democrat leaflets urging the listeners to vote; the tolling of St. Peter's eight-foot bell and the music of the Vatican's band stirred the throng, whose banners read "Christ or Death." With raised hands, the Pope cried: "This year of anxiety and peril is the harbinger of world events which, perhaps, will be irreparable. . . . The great hour of Christian conscience has struck! . . . There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Viva Questi, Viva Quelli! | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

...Shorty Bell (Sun. 9:30 p.m., CBS). A new show starring Mickey Rooney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Mar. 29, 1948 | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

Hoopee. Collapsible plastic hoops that can be slipped into full-skirted evening dresses to turn them into hoop skirts will go on sale soon in Atlanta department stores. The name: "Bell o' the Ball." The price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Facts & Figures, Mar. 8, 1948 | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

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