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Minutes later, the girl was talking to the desk sergeant in the Palisades Park jail. Name: Susan Bower; age: 20; home: Bozeman, Mont.; possessions: $14; last address: Bangor, Me. (where she had been digging potatoes); present occupation: hitchhiker; destination: Florida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: So You Won't Talk, Huh? | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

Jinnah and Nehru walked together for five minutes through a bower of rambler roses and foxglove. Hopes rose. When a photographer suggested that they shake hands, neither made a move. Hopes fell. Over the negotiations brooded the spirit of Mohandas Gandhi, installed in a nearby lodge. "To succumb to pessimism," he said, "is like dying before one's appointed death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Impasse under the Roses | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

Stouthearted Britons might well cry, with Dr. Johnson, "Old England is lost!" From London last week came dread tidings of a changing land: tj In a report deemed a "classic" by Minister Sir Guy Nott-Bower, the British Ministry of Fuel and Power launched an all-out attack on Britain's 28 million-odd cherished open fireplaces. The filthy things, said the report, not only waste coal and give no heat, but definitely bring on lung diseases. * Recommended: central heating with gas, electricity or "other systems that burn smokeless, solid fuel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: O Tempora | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

...friend Dallas Bower, a producer for BBC, was responsible for the idea of the production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Masterpiece | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

Lift not thy spear against the Muse's bower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Strauss at Home | 5/14/1945 | See Source »

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