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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reader's mind." Hadden was also highly competitive and vastly ambitious: he planned to make a million dollars by the time he was thirty. But once he has said this much, Busch proceeds to embellish rather than to develop his story. And his occasional efforts to probe deep frequently border on the ridiculous. "The urgency of Hadden's impulse toward life," he writes, "started with his original struggle to stay alive in the first place." This "struggle" took place when "little Hadden" was between one and six weeks old, and was brought about by his premature birth. "Ever since that...

Author: By Joel Raphaelson, | Title: Superficial View Of Yaleman Who Co-founded Time | 5/17/1949 | See Source »

...Helmstedt, main crossing point on the Soviet-British frontier, workmen and soldiers had hurriedly installed radio and telephone equipment, repainted border signs, clipped weeds at the sides of the long unused highway. The British announced that the first train would be for military passengers and correspondents. Later in the day, ten trainloads of coal and six of fresh potatoes and other goods would reach the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Victory at Berlin | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

Author Dobie's book is saturated with the lore of the range, the brush and the border country. It is the final word on its subject, and very nearly one of those classic studies that seem to sum up everything that has been written before it. A lack of focus weakens it, a discursiveness, and an argumentative mood about the anti-coyote policy in Washington. But at its best, it reads the way oldtimers talk, with a fine earthy mixture of courtesy and superstition, wisdom and independence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Part of the Life | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...Commonwealth fold. She could ill afford to lose British economic, military and technical help. The British in India today, now that they no longer rule, are more popular than ever before. Living alone in the world does not look inviting, with the Communist colossus on India's northern border. Nearer to home, India is confronted with the terrible warning of Burma which fell into chaos and civil war after rashly severing all Commonwealth ties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: The Grin Without the Cat | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

Britain's tweedy Amateur Archeologist Egerton Sykes, onetime army intelligence officer, is willing to take the Bible's word at face value. For years he has longed to investigate Mt. Ararat, the 16,946-ft. peak which straddles Turkey and Persia at the border of Soviet Armenia. Recently he announced his intention of leading an expedition there in June. Dean Aaron J. Smith of North Carolina's People's Bible College, another enthusiastic amateur, said he would go along. "It's not necessarily the Ark we hope to find," explained Sykes, "but any ship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Suspicion on the Mount | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

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