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...been more concerned about Joe's case than Swedish-born Ragnar Nelson, a dapper, bow-tied Republican assemblyman who sold insurance on the side. "Rags" Nelson sponsored Joe's bill in the legislature, helped push it through both houses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: Rags & Riches | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

Equlpped with the means to provide seismologists a complete picture of what is happening inside the earth during quakes, a new kind of earthquake-recorder made its bow at the University Seismograph Station late last month...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University's New-Type Seismograph Shows All Phases of Quake on Tape | 2/12/1948 | See Source »

...children or none. Birth-controllers used to worry only about families with too many children. But that was three decades or so ago, when Margaret Sanger began her crusading. Last week the Planned Parenthood Federation (it used to be called the Birth Control League) actually made a deep bow to a Roman Catholic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Planned Fertility | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

...Christian world, its mouth on fire, and in the background floated a menacing turretful of Turks. Hermit Saint Anthony turns his back on the nightmare. Ignoring the crossbowman above him, he takes comfort in the psalm: "In the Lord put I my trust . . . for lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sermons in Symbols | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

Playwright Lavery-hoping to rouse men's minds by tickling their ribs-has written a comedy about a roughneck (Hollywood's Anthony Quinn, making his first Broadway bow) who hijacks his way into Congress. To attract attention there, he introduces a bill calling for World Government. Soon he really believes in the bill, and is using gangster tactics to get it passed. That is the end of him as a Congressman, but the beginning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan, Dec. 22, 1947 | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

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