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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christian Century, under the headline MR. DULLES SHOULD BE NAMED AT ONCE on Nov. 3: "The constitutional interregnum . . . cannot be avoided, but if the President-elect will name his Secretary of State immediately, the damage . .. will be held at a minimum." This week the Christian Century was still calling Dewey "the President-elect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Study of a Failure | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...there iniquity in my tongue? Cannot my taste discern perverse things? . . . Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: What Happened? | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...Istanbul patriarchs are virtually imprisoned in the patriarchate, since they cannot appear in public without their official robes, which are forbidden by law on the streets of Turkey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Nylon Patriarch | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

Rouault has a habit of keeping his paintings locked up in his studio for years on end, signing them only when he is sure he cannot improve them by so much as a single stroke of the brush. He thinks of himself as a misunderstood traditionalist in art (his training was both academic and thorough), and he has been heard to complain that the younger modern painters "don't begin at the beginning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Up in Smoke | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...past two years, A.A. has more than doubled its membership (from 35,000 to 75,000). It now has 2,500 groups in the U.S. and 23 foreign countries-from Canada to Australia and Japan. The onetime alcoholics feel that their disease is one which cannot be cured, but can be arrested; they know that they cannot safely take even a single drink. They know that the fight is a tough one, but it can be done, with the help of friends and a Higher Power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dry Party | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

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