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Elsewhere, except in Latin America, where New Year's is likely to be one of the hottest days of summer, celebrations will be mainly on a catch-as-catch-can basis. In Athens, the Robert Lows could figure on no central heating after ten o'clock, candlelight after 1 a.m., and no dancing at all (forbidden because of Greece's "cold war"). In divided, blockaded Berlin, under the now familiar drone of the airlift planes, most bureau-men planned to spend New Year's quietly at home, or, more likely, out covering the news. In Shanghai...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jan. 3, 1949 | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

Radcliffe undergraduates will meet tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 p.m. in St. John's Chapel to reinstitute one of the oldest Annex customs the Christmas candlelight service...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Revives Candlelighting at St. John's Chapel | 12/14/1948 | See Source »

...Every Night." Shortly after we began eating, an orderly called General Li to the phone. He talked for a moment in a low voice and returned to the table. In the candlelight the lines on his youthful face-he is 44 - had sagged. He stared at his rice bowl, then explained quietly that he had just had word of a radio message from his friend General Huang. "The trap is closing," said Li. "He must have help soon. We must reach him in two days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Battle Piece | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...brown obscurity of the painting glowed faintly with candlelight and with rose, blue and yellow waistcoats. The clock on the wall pointed to 2 a.m. and everyone seemed to be having a splendid time splicing the main brace-except for an old salt named Jonas Wanton. Jonas had passed out cold, but he remained a center of attention: one wassailer was being sick beside him, while Stephen Hopkins (who was later to sign the Declaration of Independence for Rhode Island) blessed his bald head with grog...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Far from Home | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...Valpey's football team, getting its first workout of the week, ground to a halt when the power failure plunged the cage into darkness at five o'clock. The girls were more inventive; they played bridge by candlelight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Light Failure Halts Varsity But Can't Stop Annex Bridge | 10/26/1948 | See Source »

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