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...there often hindered him. Had our aid to China been as vigorous and proportional to the size of the problems as our aid to Greece, which had similar weaknesses and corruption, and had Chiang still lost, we could then say that the situation was hopeless; as is, we must chalk up this catastrophe to the Administration's lack of interest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOBBYIST SPEAKS UP | 4/12/1952 | See Source »

...everything is different. A girl can't hold up her head unless is is caparisoned in a new and striking hairstyle. Stand on any street corner and chalk up the different styles that march, prance, mince, amble by. Bob follows shingle, and weave follows bob; hair is piled up, tossed down and trampled on, pinned with pins, carefully disciplined or just plain rampant. If any two similar styles walk by you know they belong to twins...

Author: By John Forand, | Title: Hair Runs Gamut; Pony to Poodle | 3/26/1952 | See Source »

Japan's Masako Katsura, 38, is the first woman ever to try for the world three-cushion billiard title. Masako is cue-tall (5 ft.) and light as chalk (96 Ibs.). But her skill can make three ivory billiard balls do nearly everything but rattle Banzai! She will need all her wizardry for the next fortnight to beat out her nine topflight male opponents. The favored defending champion, 64-year-old Willie Hoppe, who was a billiard prodigy at seven, is still the greatest player of them all; he still practices five hours a day to keep the form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Lady with a Cue | 3/17/1952 | See Source »

...Sapolin Co.'s "Rite-on-Green," for nurseries, school rooms, etc. It dries with a green, slatelike finish, on which chalk marks can be made and erased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Everyone a Painter | 12/17/1951 | See Source »

...cobalt bomb was developed by Canadian atomic scientists and is the strongest radioactive source ever used for a peacetime purpose in any country. Wafers of cobalt the size of a 25? piece were put in the Canadian atomic pile at Chalk River, Ont. and left there for two years to be bombarded with neutrons and made highly radioactive. Then 24 wafers of the radioactive product (Cobalt 60) became the charge for London's cobalt bomb; the others were sent to Saskatchewan for another cobalt bomb, which was in operation at Saskatoon last week. More cobalt is being "cooked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Peacetime Bomb | 11/19/1951 | See Source »

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