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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inveighed against the U.N. mediator. The Communists (whose line the Sternists follow) called Bernadotte a "traveling agent of American business." Foreign Minister Moshe Shertok accused him of partiality to the Arabs, and Prime Minister Ben-Gurion himself snapped: "The truce is an act of war designed to break our will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Man of Peace | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...fights for Communism must be able to fight and not to fight, to say the truth and not to say the truth, to render and to deny service, to keep a promise and to break a promise, to go into danger and to avoid danger, to be known and to be unknown. Who fights for Communism has of all the virtues only one: that he fights for Communism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Of All the Virtues . . . | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...team starts at nine in the morning and ends at six in the evening with a brief break for lunch. Last year, the Crimson named the jayvee's field the Blood Pit. This fall, for the long gruelling sessions marked by hard contact and spirited battles between the squad's members for varsity positions, we name the varsity area the Blood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Look Brightens Soldiers Field | 9/23/1948 | See Source »

...Amusement Park, after setting a new world's record for flagpole sitting-52 days, 13 hours, and 58 minutes. In San Francisco, Milton ("Shipwreck") Van Nolan, 22, settled himself more firmly in his cowboy saddle on a pole above Horsetrader Ed's Kar Korral, swore he would break Ozzie's record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Sep. 20, 1948 | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

...station break, the announcer said: "This is Boston, baseball capital of the country." In his State Street office, a white-haired broker told his secretary that he would be in conference with his radio until the game was over. Attendance at Braves Field, home of Boston's National League leaders, passed 1,305,000-breaking all records. Youngsters bivouacked outside Fenway Park all night to be sure of seeing the American League-leading Red Sox. From as far as Lima, Peru, requests for World Series tickets flooded in. Beantown, which has never had a series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Double-Pennant Fever | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

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