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...Though his political opponents glibly refer to him as a "Boston Club man," he is not a member of that proud and rigid club. Reform movements used to start in the Boston Club; generally they amounted to no more than a delicate finger-pointing at the city's bland face of corruption. The movement to which Chep belongs has been more effective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Old Girl's New Boy | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

Simmons girls will have a chance to buy a Harvard man tonight, but they will have to give him back after one evening's entertainment. Charles S. "Chuck" Hilboldt '48 will go up on the auction block along with a "tall bland" from Tufts and in the college's assemble hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Man's Body Goes Up On Auction Block Tonight at Simmons | 10/23/1947 | See Source »

...night and neon glow. The rubberneckers, the readers of the Daily Racing Form, the Liggett Romeos and the double-feature devotees opened a grudging path down 44th Street. From the cavalcade of tinny taxis and glossy limousines poured Broadway's first-nighters, their faces as rosy and bland as cherries in a Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Careful Dreamer | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

Over the clipped green fields of Flushing Meadow last week, only a few miles distant from the hazy skyline of Manhattan, the encircled flags of U.N.'s 55 nations flapped fitfully in a bland September breeze. Within the limestone and beaverboard temple of U.N.'s General Assembly had gathered the delegates of almost all the world's powers, great, middle and minuscule. Their agenda bulged with more than 60 issues and proposals-from The Bomb to how to make life more comfortable and diverting for visiting delegates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: The Vishinsky Approach | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

...Near Jullundur, a band of Sikhs held up a train, methodically searched all compartments and pulled out 17 Moslems, whom they beheaded on the platform. Most amazing of all was the look of bland satisfaction on the faces of these young Sikh men, their hands dripping blood, their clothes smeared with blood, as they stood and grinned at their handiwork while the train finally pulled out. The only Moslems who escaped on this trip were two who were hidden by two British officers under their baggage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Competitive Massacre | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

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