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As the continents drifted apart, Wegener maintained, they also drifted toward one another on the other side of the globe, pressing into the Pacific. Their Atlantic shores remained much as they had been before they separated; but the Pacific shores crumpled the earth's crust ahead of them, like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Continents on the Loose | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

As the headlines broke out on Marshall and Byrnes (see,NATIONAL AFFAIRS), gossip columnists rushed forward and took hasty bows. Some of the gossips (who predict a hatful of things, on the chance that a few will come to pass) had predicted long ago that Jimmy Byrnes would quit. In...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Smart Scot | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

Last week, in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, slim, courtly Jacques Thibaud, looking much younger than his 66 years, made his first U.S. appearance in 15 years. In the audience were Violinists Fritz Kreisler, Mischa Elman and Nathan Milstein. Concertgoers used to the opulent Russian-style fiddling of Heifetz and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Triumph for Thibaud | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

Ventriloquism is no novelty at the U.N. The ancient, stiff-lipped, diplomatic art of throwing words into another's mouth has been practiced long and often between the world's capitals and U.N.'s council tables. But up to now, like Charlie himself, the McCarthys have taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: A Little Entertainment | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

Captain George Sarbacher Jr., 27, one of the youngest members of the 80th Congress, and still on active Marine Corps duty at the Philadelphia Naval Base; son of George W. Sarbacher, veteran G.O.P. leader in Philadelphia's 43rd ward. Because of Marine regulations, Sarbacher did not speak during his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: New Faces in the House | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

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