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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...agreement faced tough sledding in the Indonesian congress, which had still to ratify it. But, as a spokesman for Masjumi, Indonesia's largest political party, put it: "We are not very contented. Yet we will make the best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Chip on the Shoulder | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

After deep thought, Hollywood Art Director Emrich Nicholson concluded that glamour girls look their best only against exactly the right backgrounds. For example, he said, Betty Grable shows up fine in a curlicued Louis XV setting, and Jane Russell seems to "go with a haystack." Nicholson found one exception: Ava Gardner. "With that face and figure? Heavens, she'd stand out in front of almost anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 14, 1949 | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

Alfred Stieglitz was the best photographer ever to come down the pike. Until he died in 1946, the spindly, black-caped little man was also a prophetic educator in the cause of modern art. His widow, Painter Georgia O'Keeffe, has carried on his educational work as executrix of his will by dividing Stieglitz' brilliant art collection and his own even more brilliant photographs among six widely spaced institutions: Manhattan's Metropolitan, Chicago's Art Institute, Washington's National Gallery, the Library of Congress, the Philadelphia Museum and Fisk University (for Negroes) in Tennessee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Many Ways | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...final round, while Middlecoff was floundering, Snead treated himself to a 66. By winning the North and South (by six strokes over Runner-Up Johnny Bulla), Sam Snead boosted his earnings for the year to $32,393. Next best: Middlecoff, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Top Man | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

After studying at Virginia's Union Theological Seminary, he was ordained a Presbyterian minister. Last week Albert Johnstone accepted his first call-to nearby Ashland Presbyterian Church. Said the tall Rev. Mr. Johnstone: "I plan to do the best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The New Minister | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

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