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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the Balkan satellites are closed to him, Low confesses to a certain loneliness: "You miss those little men from the security police who tail you, the knowledge that your telephone is tapped, and the interesting things the Communist newspapers write about you" (one described Low as "the Ronald Colman-type champion of American imperialism"). As a final bit of intelligence extracted from his last trip behind the Curtain, Low reports that the hottest black market item now is playing cards. None have been manufactured there since before the war, and there are no Communist allocations for reviving the industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Mar. 28, 1949 | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

...through this trial to be patient," he said. "There are few qualities of life that are so important. If you don't let little things disturb you at all, then you get a certain calm and peace of mind about it. That is the sort of thing that is the essence of the administration of justice. Now do that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Keep Calm | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

...Ornithologist Roger Tory Peterson urged bird watching upon U.S. neurotics, but warned: "Beyond a certain point even the birds can't help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS .& MORALS: Americana, Mar. 28, 1949 | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

About this time of year certain elements of the population get sick of basketball, pinball and numbers and want to hear the patter of tiny hoofs along the backstretch. And so the guys and dolls from far and near will congregate today at the Pawtucket oval...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Egg In Your Beer | 3/26/1949 | See Source »

...Society is an organization devoted to telepathy, which is the process of sending thought messages from one person to another, and with clairvoyance, which is one person's mental awareness of certain physical occurrances around...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Parapsychology Club Starts New Telepathy Experiments | 3/26/1949 | See Source »

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