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...girls, who think highly of most of the Union food, thought that too many boys, especially the "High brow" ones, "panned the food too much...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Some Freshmen Slobs, Others Real Gentlemen According to Union Gals | 4/29/1949 | See Source »

Wiping a carbon-black wrist over a sweaty carbon-black brow, another worker said: "This Marshall aid has got my thanks." A third said: "It's given us a breathing space." A plant official echoed: "Marshall aid saved us from catastrophe." He spoke as simply as if he were saying: "Unless I breathe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: America's Answer | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...Dmitri Shostakovich. A shy, stiff-shouldered man with a pale, wide forehead, Shostakovich was painfully ill at ease. To the repeated ovations he received he ducked his head abruptly again & again, like a small boy after a commencement speech. He cringed visibly from the photographers' flashbulbs, mopped his brow, twiddled his spectacles. During speeches, his long fingers seemed to be tapping out some nameless composition on his forearm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Tumult at the Waldorf | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

...particular, and freedom of speech in general, are taking a bad beating because of the current wave of anti-communist hysteria, Dean Bender's strong re-affirmation of faith in the free exchange of ideas is a welcome reassurance that there are those who will not let themselves be brow-beaten by J. Parnell Thomas--or Fulton Lewis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bender on Communists | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

...Furrowed Brow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Mar. 7, 1949 | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

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