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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mrs. Roosevelt sent off a second note: "This Eisler case seems a hard nut to crack. What do you suggest?" This brought another polite brush-off from Welles. Last week Mrs. Roosevelt, now busy with U.N. duties, told newsmen that she had never met Eisler and did not remember writing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Brother Hanns | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

There are 947 students in the biggest class at Berkeley. This sheep-dip style of education encourages short cuts: mimeographed commercial lecture notes (Fybate Notes) sell like Books-of-the-Month on Berkeley's campus. California does its best to break up, and to personalize, the courses. At U.C.L.A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Big Man on Eight Campuses | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

The archetype of Prussian character and statecraft, "Old Fritz" inspired Goethe, has been almost adored by a long line of German historians. Carlyle, Macaulay and Lytton Strachey wrote of him with fascination and even with admiration. Present-day scholarship has little to add to the full-dress biographies now in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old Fritz | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

The story is a modern contest between good & evil, with Morgan acting as a kind of celestial scorekeeper. The chief character is a retired judge who is writing a book about Athens during its best days. A saintly Mr. Chips wrestling with the devil instead of the Lower Form, he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Problem Piece | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

The domestic issue was discrimination in the shape of quota systems and Jim Crow facilities. What would ordinarily have amounted to a simple conflict of attitude between white delegates became complicated by the easily exploitable character of the entire affair for such agitation groups as Young Progressive Citizens of America...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: I.U.S. Affiliation and Racial Issue Tested Student Association's Unity | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

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